Bunts
Curt Flood, Camden Yards, Pete Rose and Other Reflections on Baseball
$41.60
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
15 April 1999
Summary
In this New York Times bestseller, Pulitzer Prize-winning author George F. Will returns to baseball with more than seventy finely honed pieces about the sometimes recondite, sometimes frustrating, yet always passionately felt national pastime. Here are Will’s eulogy for the late Curt Flood (“Dred Scott in Spikes”), Will on Ted Williams (“When Ted Williams retired in 1960, a sportswriter said that Boston knew how Britain felt when it lost India. Indeed, Britain felt diminished, but also a bit relieved”), and Will on his own baseball career (“I was a very late draft choice of the Mittendorf Funeral Home Panthers. Our color was black”). Here are subjects ranging from the author’s 1977 purchase of a single share of stock in the Chicago Cubs to the memorable 1998 season, which is discussed in an all-new essay.
For fans of Men at Work and Will’s other baseball writings, this book is as pleasurable as a well-executed bunt.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780684853741 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0684853744 |
| Author: | George F. Will |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | The Free Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 1999 |
| Weight: | 386g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 140mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
Ron Rapoport San Francisco Chronicle You cannot fail to be entertained by the joy and charm [Will] finds in the game.
David Plaut USA Today Baseball Weekly Like a Greg Maddux curve, Will’s prose dances and moves in all directions while seldom missing the corners of the strike zone.
Ron Rapoport San Francisco Chronicle You cannot fail to be entertained by the joy and charm [Will] finds in the game.
Matthew Berke The Weekly Standard A splendid collection….Will is a fount of memories about baseball’s past.
George F. Will
George F. Will is a syndicated columnist whose writings appear in more than 480 papers nationally. He writes a biweekly column for Newsweek and appears each Sunday on ABC’s This Week with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize, he lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
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