Baseball: A Literary Anthology
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Baseball: A Literary Anthology by Nicholas Dawidoff
Robert Frost never felt more at home in America than when watching baseball be it in park or sand lot. Full of heroism and heartbreak, the most beloved of American sports is also the most poetic, and writers have been drawn to this sport as to no other. With Baseball: A Literary Anthology, The Library of America presents the story of the national adventure as revealed through the fascinating lens of the great American game. Philip Roth considers the terrible thrill of the adolescent centerfielder; Richard Ford listens to minor-league baseball on the radio while driving cross-country; Amiri Baraka remembers the joy of watching the Newark Eagles play in the era before Jackie Robinson shattered the color line. Unforgettable portraits of legendary players who have become icons-Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and Hank Aaron-are joined by glimpses of lesser-known characters such as the erudite Moe Berg, who could speak a dozen languages but couldn't hit in any of them. Poems in Baseball: A Literary Anthology include indispensable works whose phrases have entered the language-Ernest Thayer's Casey at the Bat and Franklin P. Adams's Baseball's Sad Lexicon-as well as more recent offerings from May Swenson, Yusef Komunyakaa, and Martin Espada. Testimonies from classic oral histories offer insights into the players who helped enshrine the sport in the American imagination. Spot reporting by Heywood Broun and Damon Runyon stands side by side with journalistic profiles that match baseball legends with some of our finest writers: John Updike on Ted Williams, Gay Talese on Joe DiMaggio, Red Smith on Lefty Grove.
Nicholas Dawidoff is the author of four previous critically acclaimed books, including the bestselling The Catcher Was a Spy and The Crowd Sounds Happy. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Civitella Ranieri Fellow, a Berlin Prize Fellow of the American Academy, and an Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University, and is now a Branford Fellow at Yale University. A Pulitzer Prize finalist (for The Fly Swatter), Dawidoff is a contributor to the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, and Rolling Stone. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with his family.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781931082099 |
| ISBN 10 | 193108209X |
| Title | Baseball: A Literary Anthology |
| Author | Nicholas Dawidoff |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | The Library of America |
| Year published | 2002-03-04 |
| Number of pages | 721 |
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