Hitting into the wind
By: Bill Meissner
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Baseball stories, American.
Description: Hitting into the Wind is a wonderfully fresh and continuously delightful book of stories. A minor-league ballplayer realizes he'll never make it; an umpire makes his toughest decision - that his marriage is on the rocks; a man fondly collects old baseballs; what really happened to Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn; a kid affectionately calls his Wiffle ball "JFK" until tragedy strikes; a man leaves his wife every morning to hit baseballs until his wife finally leaves him ...