Game One Man, Nine Innings, a Love Affair with Baseball

Name: Game One Man, Nine Innings, a Love Affair with Baseball
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ISBN: 9781585423415

ISBN-10: 1585423416

ISBN-13: 9781585423415

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Robert Benson

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In the spirit of Field of Dreams, a remarkable book about baseball and the meaning of life. A game between the Iowa Cubs and the Nashville Sounds at an AAA park in Nashville provides the lens through which Robert Benson explores the game of baseball and the meaning of life in The Game. It is an ordinary week night game in the early part of the season between two teams that will finish far out of first place in the Pacific League. But Benson shows us how in this average game of baseball, just as in our everyday lives, the routine plays-the seemingly minor yet vital moves, empty of bravado-eventually win the game. In beautifully measured prose, Benson links events in his life to the innings…

Book details

List price: $12.95
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/3/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.49" wide x 8.26" long x 0.54" tall
Weight: 0.418
Language: English



Preface: A Ceremonial First Pitch


Want to Go to the Game?


May I Have This Dance?


How Did Abraham Do Yesterday?


It Could Be, It Might Be ... It Is ...


Mighty Casey Are Us


Do Not Turn Your Head


Make the Routine Play


Stand Up and Sing


Slide, Sid, Slide


The Best Game Ever


Afterword and Notes and Such