A Great and Glorious Game by Workman Publishing - ISBN: 9781565121928
Paperback
Baseball as life: Character, values, and the soul of the game.

A Great and Glorious Game

Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti

  • Paperback

    136 pages

  • Release Date

    4 January 1998

Summary

With a foreword by David Halberstam.

He spoke out against player trading. He banned Pete Rose from baseball for gambling. He even asked sports fans to clean up their acts. Bart Giamatti was baseball’s Renaissance man and its commissioner.

In A Great and Glorious Game, a collection of spirited, incisive essays, Giamatti reflects on the meaning of the game. Baseball, for him, was a metaphor for life. He artfully argues that baseball is much more than an American “pastim…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781565121928
ISBN-10:1565121929
Author:Workman Publishing, David Halberstam
Publisher:Workman Publishing
Imprint:Algonquin Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:136
Release Date:4 January 1998
Weight:136g
Dimensions:198mm x 126mm
About The Author

Workman Publishing

Kenneth S. Robson, M.D., is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Connecticut, a clinical professor at Yale University, his alma mater, and a practicing child and adolescent psychiatrist.

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