The Big Book of Baseball Stories: Timeless and Compelling Tales of Our National Game

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Jeff Silverman

The Big Book of Baseball Stories

Timeless and Compelling Tales of Our National Game

Jeff Silverman

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The Lyons Press
03 September 2024

Baseball

Series: Jumbo Story Collections

As abundant and layered as the National Pastime itself, Baseball Stories takes the reader on a rich journey that circles the bases of the game’s history and literature—its Giants, its dramas, its tragedies, and its laughs—as it rolls through the typewriters of some of the game’s mightiest scribes, from Walt Whitman and Mark Twain to Grantland Rice and Ring Lardner, even Abbott and Costello. Rediscover the feats of Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson, Ty Cobb, and Frank Merriwell; bask in the prose of P.G. Wodehouse, Paul Gallico, and Zane Gray; and dive into the very mystery of the meaning of the seventh-inning stretch.

If you love baseball, you’ll love Baseball Stories. Whitman called baseball “our game . . . America’s game.” It was then. It still is. The words within these pages invite you to remember why.

Edited by: Jeff Silverman
Imprint: The Lyons Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 227mm, Width: 151mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 526g
ISBN: 9781493086207
ISBN 10: 1493086200
Series: Jumbo Story Collections
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 03 September 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jeff Silverman, a former columnist for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and several national magazines. He is also editor of The Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told, Lardner on Baseball, The Greatest Golf Stories Ever Told, Classic Golf Stories, Bernard Darwin on Golf, and The Greatest Boxing Stories Ever Told.

Reviews for The Big Book of Baseball Stories: Timeless and Compelling Tales of Our National Game

""Jeff Silverman has brought together an eclectic selection of fiction and nonfiction baseball writing. If not always hitting a home run, most pieces have warning track power. Overall, The Big Book of Baseball Stories is a good reminder of the cultural impact of baseball in American life.""