Joy in Mudville
Subtitle: A Little League Memoir
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: May 28, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780671035327
Subjects: Baseball; Other prose: from c 1900 -; Sports & Outdoor Recreation; Sports & Recreation; Sports; Baseball - Essays & Writings; Sports & Recreation / Baseball / Essays & Writings; Baseball - General
First sentence: It's opening night at Memorial Park in Nyack, New York, hard by the Hudson River, and already the Little League season is looking bleak My Red Sox are trailing, my ace pitcher is getting bombed, and my son has already booted one ball and struck out in his only at bat Even worse, our uniforms haven't arrived yet, so we are not Red Sox, but Braves, wearing faded, mismatched shirts from a distant decade