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Title:

Home run / edited by George Plimpton.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

HarcourtINC.

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

xx, 278 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Home runs (Baseball)--Anecdotes.
Baseball stories, American.

Other Authors:

Plimpton, George.

Notes:

"A Harvest book."

Contents:

A home-run chronology / George Plimpton -- That man from Mudville / Grantland Rice -- From The natural / Bernard Malamud -- Josh / Robert Peterson -- His majesty the king / Paul Gallico -- Kaleidoscope : personality of the Babe / Robert W. Creamer -- The Babe / Garrison Keillor -- Dream of a baseball star / Gregory Corso -- Hub fans bid kid adieu / John Updike -- Miracle of Coogan's bluff / Red Smith -- Pafko at the wall / Don DeLillo -- The record almost broke him / Rick Telander -- A matter of record / George Plimpton -- A zen way of baseball / Sadaharu Oh with David Falkner --Reggie Jackson's three homers / Red Smith -- Homeric tales / Roger Angell -- A pretty good day in the life of a research scientist / Daniel Paisner -- How to trot with no place to go / Rick Reilly.

ISBN:

9780156011549
0156011549

LCCN:

2001016819

Locations:

RZPE145 -- Carroll Public Library (Carroll)

AHPD597 -- Chariton Public Library (Chariton)

NYPE343 -- Charles City Public Library (Charles City)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

ZYPE837 -- Harlan Community Library (Harlan)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

AXPF626 -- Oskaloosa Public Library (Oskaloosa)

XFPB697 -- Stanton Public Library (Stanton)