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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780020441410
ISBN: 002044141X
Label: Crowell-Collier Pr (Macmi)
Manufacturer: Crowell-Collier Pr (Macmi)
Number Of Pages: 187
Publication Date: 1989-03
Publisher: Crowell-Collier Pr (Macmi)
Sales Rank: 4026471
Studio: Crowell-Collier Pr (Macmi)
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Each night, from April through August, up to a quarter of a million people in small towns and cities across America watch minor league baseball, experiencing the ups and downs of their local team -- every move, every player, every inning. Welcome to the world of Short Season. Meet the Mason City Royals. Live with the team for five months, across eight mid-western towns, with 'no more than two days off from April through August and a night-long bus ride every three to six days.' Join in the triumphs and misadventures of its collection of hopefuls and has-beens as they get to know each other in English and Spanish, admire baseball groupies, crisscross backroads propelled by a beery-eyed driver in a rattletrap bus, play cards, steal cars, get sent up and down, and somehow through it all play good enough ball to become the Class A champions.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - A Diamond Gem
One of the true gems of baseball literature. Klinkowitz's short stories of minor league baseball ring true,without the cliches and gimmicks that lesser writers find so necessary
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780020441410
ISBN: 002044141X
Label: Crowell-Collier Pr (Macmi)
Manufacturer: Crowell-Collier Pr (Macmi)
Number Of Pages: 187
Publication Date: 1989-03
Publisher: Crowell-Collier Pr (Macmi)
Sales Rank: 4026471
Studio: Crowell-Collier Pr (Macmi)