Home field : writers remember baseball

Book

Home field : writers remember baseball / edited by John Douglas Marshall.

Marshall, John Marshall. (Added Author).

Summary:

Baseball remembered by nine great writers -- there's community, there's family, there's heart. Sherman Alexie leaping from reservation Little League to women, race, and identity. Timothy Egan tells secrets of coaching girls' Little League, including use of Doppler radar to scan for rain. Holly Morris describes how her women's softball team, the Smellies, perfected the fine art of hooha. Lynda Barry shares a tale of a magical baseball glove laced with difficult memories of her father. Larry Colton, once a "can't miss prospect," recalls the hope and pain of his professional pitching debut, then watches a next-generation "can't miss prospect" make the same mistakes. And much more. Here is baseball without stats but full of life, played by local heroes and heroines on their home field.

Record details

ISBN: 9780984178667
ISBN: 098417866X
ISBN: 9781620152263
ISBN: 1620152266
Physical Description: x, 214 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: Seattle, Wash. : Libertary, 2010, ©1997.

Content descriptions

General Note:: Originally published: Seattle : Sasquatch Press, ©1997, titled: Home field : nine writers at bat.
Formatted Contents Note:: Warriors / Sherman Alexie -- Team photo / Bryan Di Salvatore -- From the church of baseball : different hymns / Timothy Egan -- What pop fly gave his daughter / Lynda Barry -- God's tourney / Robert Leo Heilman -- Bad old years / John Owen -- Smells like team spirit : portrait of a rank season / Holly Morris -- Can't miss prospects / Larry Colton -- Baseball generations / John Douglas Marshall.