Top of the Order: 25 Writers Pick Their Favorite Baseball Player of All Time - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0306818558 ISBN 13 : 9780306818554

Editeur : Da Capo Press, 2010

Synopsis

There have been many anthologies devoted to our national pastime’s greatest players, but here, at last, is one dedicated to those, for reasons far more personal than stats-based, we call our favorites. In Top of the Order twenty-five of today’s premier sports journalists, cultural critics, novelists, and humorists (as well as a couple of former major leaguers) deliver memorable, never-before-published odes to their favorite players, past or present. By turns uplifting, woeful, and hilarious, these essays define what it means to be beset by that strange, incurable condition known as baseball fandom.

Featuring original essays by:
Roger Kahn on Jackie Robinson, Buzz Bissinger on Albert Pujols, Jonathan Eig on Lou Gehrig, Neal Pollack on Greg Maddux, Laura Lippman on Brooks Robinson, Jeff Pearlman on Garry Templeton, Jim Bouton on Steve Dembowski, Pat Jordan on Tom Seaver, Michael Ian Black on Mookie Wilson, Matt Taibbi on Jim Rice, Steve Almond on Rickey Henderson, and many more.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Sean Manning is the editor of the nonfiction anthologies The Show I'll Never Forget and Rock and Roll Cage Match. He lives in New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Da Capo Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0306818558
• ISBN 13: 9780306818554
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Éditeur: Manning Sean
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• Personne responsable: non disponible