num_pages: 298
description: Selected as one of baseball literature's Golden Dozen by Roger Kahn, Man on Spikes is an uncompromisingly realistic novel about a baseball player who struggles through sixteen years of personal crises and professional ordeals before finally appearing in a major league game. In a preface to this new edition, Eliot Asinof reveals the longsuffering ballplayer and friend upon which the novel is based.  
language: English
title: Man on Spikes
titlecomplete: Man on Spikes (Writing Baseball)
genres: Fiction, Baseball, Sports
ratings_count: 42
series: Writing Baseball
publisher: Southern Illinois University Press