Home run
By: edited by George Plimpton
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harcourt, INC.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: San Diego
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780156011549
Subjects: Home runs (Baseball) -- Anecdotes.; Baseball stories, American.
Genres: Anecdotes.
Notes: "A Harvest book."
Table of contents: title: A home-run chronology / George Plimpton; title: That man from Mudville / Grantland Rice; title: From The natural / Bernard Malamud; title: Josh / Robert Peterson; title: His majesty the king / Paul Gallico; title: Kaleidoscope : personality of the Babe / Robert W. Creamer; title: The Babe / Garrison Keillor; title: Dream of a baseball star / Gregory Corso; title: Hub fans bid kid adieu / John Updike; title: Miracle of Coogan's bluff / Red Smith; title: Pafko at the wall / Don DeLillo; title: The record almost broke him / Rick Telander; title: A matter of record / George Plimpton; title: A zen way of baseball / Sadaharu Oh with David Falkner; title: Reggie Jackson's three homers / Red Smith; title: Homeric tales / Roger Angell; title: A pretty good day in the life of a research scientist / Daniel Paisner; title: How to trot with no place to go / Rick Reilly.