Fantasy life
Subtitle: baseball and the American dream
By: photographs by Tabitha Soren ; five linked stories by Dave Eggers ; with commentaries by Joe Blanton, [and 9 others]
Contributors: Eggers, Dave, author; Blanton, Joe, 1980- writer of added text; Aperture Foundation
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Aperture
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9781597113854
Subjects: Baseball players; Oakland Athletics (Baseball team); Portrait photography; Baseball; Artistic Photography; Pictorial works
Other titles: Baseball and the American dream
Description: "In 2002, Tabitha Soren began photographing the draft class for the Oakland A's--their lives on the road, and the grueling work behind the scenes required to make it to the major leagues.  Soren has continued to photograph them ever since, documenting their divergent paths through success, heartbreak, and, sometimes, even fame. Accompanied by five linked short stories by Dave Eggers, [this book] explores the enduring spirit of this quintessential American fantasy of making it in the major leagues"--