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Wednesday, June 08, 2005
Twilight of the Long Ball
Bison Books has a very impressive collection of essays out by John Schulian, a former Chicago Sun-Times sports columnist and longtime SI contributor. This is from the description for Twilight of the Long Ball:
A report from the true heart of baseball, this anthology leaves behind the bad boys and big names of the major leagues to take readers to the places where the spirit of America’s game resides. These are a veteran sportswriter’s dispatches from the bush leagues and the sandlot, his tributes to the Negro leaguers, mining-town dreamers, and certifiable eccentrics who give baseball its heart and soul, laughter and tears.
Now that sounds like the most intelligent book I've heard about baseball in a long long time. It's about damn time somebody reminded us why the game matters.
A report from the true heart of baseball, this anthology leaves behind the bad boys and big names of the major leagues to take readers to the places where the spirit of America’s game resides. These are a veteran sportswriter’s dispatches from the bush leagues and the sandlot, his tributes to the Negro leaguers, mining-town dreamers, and certifiable eccentrics who give baseball its heart and soul, laughter and tears.
Now that sounds like the most intelligent book I've heard about baseball in a long long time. It's about damn time somebody reminded us why the game matters.
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