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Painting the Corners

- Off-Center Baseball Fiction
Af: Bob Weintraub Engelsk Hardback

Painting the Corners

- Off-Center Baseball Fiction
Af: Bob Weintraub Engelsk Hardback
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"Imaginative baseball stories for long rain delays and hot stove league nights." —Darryl Brock, author of If I Never Get Back and Two in the Field

Bob Weintraub''s marvelous collection of baseball stories goes directly to the core of what the game does for us when we watch it being played on the field, and shows how its heroes and villains can reach into our lives and remain a part of us for the rest of our days. The stories are told from various perspectives, including those of the player, manager, general manager, coach, scout, owner, writer, broadcaster, and fan. In "Knuckleball,"; a manager is beside himself when he can''t let his star knuckleball pitcher start the seventh game of the World Series because the only catcher he''s ever had in the big leagues suddenly goes down with an injury. The team from Alcatraz, in "The Way They Play Is Criminal," has a bag full of dirty tricks waiting to spring on its San Quentin rivals, and it uses them all. A father on a college tour with his daughter happens upon the very same autographed baseball he saw a friend catch in Fenway Park''s bleachers thirty years earlier, and learns, in "The Autograph," how a twist of fate has brought the friend together with the player who hit it.

In these and other stories, Weintraub infuses baseball with humanity, originality, humor, and compassion, and raises the game to a new level of understanding and love.
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"Imaginative baseball stories for long rain delays and hot stove league nights." —Darryl Brock, author of If I Never Get Back and Two in the Field

Bob Weintraub''s marvelous collection of baseball stories goes directly to the core of what the game does for us when we watch it being played on the field, and shows how its heroes and villains can reach into our lives and remain a part of us for the rest of our days. The stories are told from various perspectives, including those of the player, manager, general manager, coach, scout, owner, writer, broadcaster, and fan. In "Knuckleball,"; a manager is beside himself when he can''t let his star knuckleball pitcher start the seventh game of the World Series because the only catcher he''s ever had in the big leagues suddenly goes down with an injury. The team from Alcatraz, in "The Way They Play Is Criminal," has a bag full of dirty tricks waiting to spring on its San Quentin rivals, and it uses them all. A father on a college tour with his daughter happens upon the very same autographed baseball he saw a friend catch in Fenway Park''s bleachers thirty years earlier, and learns, in "The Autograph," how a twist of fate has brought the friend together with the player who hit it.

In these and other stories, Weintraub infuses baseball with humanity, originality, humor, and compassion, and raises the game to a new level of understanding and love.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 224
ISBN-13: 9781631580161
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1631580167
Kategori: Moderne Samtidslitteratur
Udg. Dato: 4 dec 2014
Længde: 0mm
Bredde: 152mm
Højde: 229mm
Forlag: Skyhorse Publishing
Oplagsdato: 4 dec 2014
Forfatter(e): Bob Weintraub
Forfatter(e) Bob Weintraub

Kategori Moderne Samtidslitteratur

ISBN-13 9781631580161

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 224

Udgave

Længde 0mm

Bredde 152mm

Højde 229mm

Udg. Dato 4 dec 2014

Oplagsdato 4 dec 2014

Forlag Skyhorse Publishing