num_pages: 224
description: A story with a heart of gold about love and the loss of innocence at the bottom of the most minor league in baseball―the class D Alabama-Florida League in the 1950s, with a sour old maverick manager, a yearning teenage second baseman, and a black catcher masquerading as a Venezuelan. "A first-rate novel.”― Newsweek . "A sharp, unsentimental portrait of the minor league life...and Hemphill makes it all come to life, believably and memorably.”― Sports Illustrated . "So good, so true, so funny...”― New York Times Book Review .
language: English
title: Long Gone: A Novel
titlecomplete: Long Gone: A Novel
genres: Fiction, Baseball, Sports
ratings_count: 48
publisher: Ivan R. Dee