Man on spikes
By: Eliot Asinof ; new foreword by Marvin Miller.
Series: Writing baseball
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Baseball players -- Fiction
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 long-suffering ballplayer and friend upon which the novel is based.