Dead Balls and Double Curves
Subtitle: An Anthology of Early Baseball Fiction (Writing Baseball)
Contributors: Arnold Hano (Foreword)
Edition: 1st Edition edition
Publisher: Southern Illinois University
Published: March 11, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780809325610
Subjects: Baseball; Short stories; Fiction - General; American fiction; English; Fiction; USA; Short Stories (Anthologies); Sports; Sports & Recreation / Baseball / Essays & Writings; 20th century; 19th century; Baseball stories, American
First sentence: The legend of baseball's immaculate conception claims General Abner Doubleday created the game in a cow pasture outside Cooperstown, New York, in 1839.