Bottom of the ninth
Subtitle: great contemporary baseball short stories
By: edited and with an introduction by John McNally ; with a foreword by Richard Russo.
Contributors: McNally, John, 1965-
Series: Writing baseball
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Baseball stories, American.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xxiv).
Table of contents: title: Batting against Castro / Jim Shepard; title: Death of the right fielder / Stuart Dybek; title: Umpire / Kurt Rheinheimer; title: The world's foremost fungo hitter watches Bugs Bunny in the Spartanburg, South Carolina, Days Inn / Josh Russell; title: Wonders / Owen King; title: What we all want / Leslie Pietrzyk; title: The bigs / David Jauss; title: The greatest slump of all time / David Carkeet; title: Basepaths / Jerry Klinkowitz; title: Infield / Philip F. Deaver; title: Baseball / Ray Gonzalez; title: Pray for rain / Kip Kotzen; title: The barbarians / Patricia Highsmith; title: Sunny Billy Day / Ron Carlson; title: After the game / Andre Dubus; title: Caught / Cris Mazza; title: Gold moments and victory beer / Gordon Weaver; title: The cage / Floyd Skloot; title: How to write a true baseball story / Richard Peterson.