Baseball's Best Short Stories (Sporting's Best Short Stories) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Baseball's Best Short Stories This expanded edition features the best-loved short stories from the 20th century as well as new tales from some of the 21st century's most iconic names in fiction. No other sport has inspired as many great writers as baseball has, and this exceptional anthology brings together 34 short stories about the nation's favorite pastime. The stories span several decades and are written by some of America...
Full description- Publisher: Chicago Review Press
- Published: 01 April 2012
- Format: Paperback 448 pages
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- Categories: Anthologies (non-poetry) | Contemporary Fiction | Short Stories
- ISBN 13: 9781613743768 ISBN 10: 1613743769
- Sales rank: 395,609
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Full description for Baseball's Best Short Stories
This expanded edition features the best-loved short stories from the 20th century as well as new tales from some of the 21st century's most iconic names in fiction. No other sport has inspired as many great writers as baseball has, and this exceptional anthology brings together 34 short stories about the nation's favorite pastime. The stories span several decades and are written by some of America's favorite writers, including Zane Grey, James Thurber, Robert Penn Warren, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and Michael Chabon, among others. Many of the stories are about the game itself, while others use baseball as a backdrop for timeless themes, such as morality, greed, and love. Eight new stories have been added to this expanded edition and include "Bullet in the Brain" by Tobias Wolff, in which baseball is the surprising last memory of a dying man; George Plimpton's "The Curious Case of Sidd Finch," a fictional story about a baseball player who throws a 150-mph fastball that was a notorious April Fools' Day hoax in "Sports""Illustrated"; and Leslie Pietrzyk's "What We All Want," about a pitcher's wife's concern for her aging husband. This collection is for all baseball lovers--long after the season is over.
