The Heavenly World Series
Subtitle: Timeless Baseball Fiction
Contributors: Darryl Brock (Introduction)
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Published: March 12, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780786709502
Subjects: Short stories; Fiction; Fiction - General; Sports; Short Stories (single author); Fiction / General; Baseball stories, American; Baseball
First sentence: Whenever I see my father's lumpy fingers and flattened, crooked nose it takes me back fifty years to his youth and his last summer of hometown baseball before he went up to the Cubs.
Description: The master of sports fiction serves up a collection of stories--including "The Catcher" and "One Ounce of Common Sense"--About baseball players who play out their fantasies and dreams through the game and the discipline that surrounds it.