Title: Bunts : Curt Flood, Camden Yards, Pete Rose, and other reflections on baseball /
Authors: Will, George F.
Publisher: Scribner,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Baseball United States Anecdotes; Baseball Social aspects United States.
Abstract: Contains over seventy essays by columnist George Will in which he tells stories of America's favorite pastime, and includes an examination of baseball's evolution through the twentieth century.
Contents: The Cubs and conservatism -- The fan's funny sort of seriousness -- The most consoling word: "Overdue" -- Players are bought and sold? Say it ain't so -- Warren Buffett misses a gravy train -- The Chicago Water Beetles -- Alexander Cartwright and the joy of baseball -- The case for I.T. (ineptitude transfer) -- The 1980 Cubs' strength: candor -- The answer is: Ronald Reagan. The question is: who is the only person to have held America's two most difficult jobs? -- Baseball and socialism -- Baseball and communism -- The earl -- The pythagoras of Winchester, Kansas -- Ancient Greece got it right -- Speaking Stengelese -- Baseball in the unmitigated city -- Baseball by the (Elias) book -- The answer is Harry Chiti. The question is ... -- The nation's failings in the national pastime -- The work of Louisville's fathers -- Ring Lardner, call your office -- La Plata's cheerfulness quotient.