Baseball's Best Short Stories

Name: Baseball's Best Short Stories
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ISBN: 9781613743768

ISBN-10: 1613743769

ISBN-13: 9781613743768

Edition: 2012

Authors: Paul D. Staudohar

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No other sport has inspired as many great writers as baseball and this exceptional anthology brings together 37 short stories about the national pastime. The stories span several decades and are written by some of America's favorite writers, including Zane Grey, James Thurber, Robert Penn Warren, T. C. Boyle, and Michael Chabon, among others. Many of the stories are about the game itself, while others use baseball as a backdrop for timeless themes, such as morality, greed, and love. Nine new stories have been added for this new edition and include "Bullet in the Brain" by Tobias Wolff in which baseball is the surprising last memory of a dying man; George Plimpton's "The Curious Case of Sidd…

Book details

List price: $20.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Paul D. Staudohar is Professor of Business Administration at California StateUniversity at Hayward



Preface to the Expanded Edition


Preface to the Original Edition


Casey at the Bat



Casey at the Bat



The Thrill of the Grass



The Rube's Waterloo



Alibi Ike



Three New Twins Join Club in Spring



A Family Game



Goodwood Comes Back



The Rookie



The Crab



Baseball in April



You Could Look It Up



Smoke



One Throw



A Game of Catch



A Pitcher Grows Tired



Baseball Hattie



Bullet in the Brain



The Master's Touch



What Did We Do Wrong?



Horseshoes



Fielder's Choice



Brooklyns Lose



The Pitcher and the Plutocrat



Gandhi at the Bat



The Curious Case of Sidd Finch



Jamesie



Leg



The Crambury Tiger



What We All Want



Who's on First?



Death of a Right Fielder



The Umpire Was a Rookie



The Hector Quesadilla Story



Acknowledgments


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