Out of My League: The Classic Account of an Amateur's Ordeal in Professional Baseball
Autor George Plimpton Cuvânt înainte de Jane Leavyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 apr 2016
The first of Plimpton's remarkable forays into participatory journalism, OUT OF MY LEAGUE chronicles with wit, charm, and grace what happens when a self-professed amateur has the chance to answer every fan's question: couldhestrike out a major league star?
Plimpton's inspired idea--to get on the mound and pitch a few innings to the All-Stars of the American and National Leagues--begins as a fun-filled stunt and comes to a deeply hellish, nearly humiliating end. This honest and hilarious tale features Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Whitey Ford, Ralph Houk, and other baseball greats and is "a baseball book such as no one else ever wrote, and one of the best ever." --New York Herald Tribune
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316284547
ISBN-10: 0316284548
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 146 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Little Brown and Company
ISBN-10: 0316284548
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 146 x 216 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Little Brown and Company
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Notă biografică
George
Plimpton(1927-2003)
was
the
bestselling
author
and
editor
of
nearly
thirty
books,
as
well
as
the
cofounder,
publisher,
and
editor
of
theParis
Review.
He
wrote
regularly
for
such
magazines
asSports
IllustratedandEsquire,
and
he
appeared
numerous
times
in
films
and
on
television.
Recenzii
"Beautifully
observed
and
incredibly
conceived,
this
account
of
a
self-imposed
ordeal
has
the
chilling
quality
of
a
true
nightmare.
It
is
the
dark
side
of
the
moon
of
Walter
Mitty."—Ernest
Hemingway
"A baseball book such as no one else ever wrote, and one of the best ever."—New York Herald Tribune
"Out of My Leaguecopes with the problem of the imaginary nightmare of walking every batter and the glittering triumph (the shutout) of striking them out, one after the other."—Marianne Moore
"It's all there: the humor, the classical allusions and the verisimilitude that makes you feel that you were not only there to see it but suffered through it with George."—Allen Barra,Dallas Morning News
"A delight--more entertaining, if possible, than I remembered... the reader leaves George Plimpton's wide world of sports with deep reluctance.... His prose is as elegant and seemingly effortless as Ted Williams's swing or an Arnold Palmer iron shot.... His teammates recede--like the old baseball players vanishing into the cornfield inField of Dreams, taking their magical world with them but living on in fond memory."—Edward Kosner, Wall Street Journal
"Sports memoirs, like humor collections, rarely outlive their authors, but Plimpton's books have aged gracefully and even matured. Today they have the additional (and unintended) appeal of vivid history, bearing witness to a mythical era."—Nathaniel Rich,New York Review of Books
"A baseball book such as no one else ever wrote, and one of the best ever."—New York Herald Tribune
"Out of My Leaguecopes with the problem of the imaginary nightmare of walking every batter and the glittering triumph (the shutout) of striking them out, one after the other."—Marianne Moore
"It's all there: the humor, the classical allusions and the verisimilitude that makes you feel that you were not only there to see it but suffered through it with George."—Allen Barra,Dallas Morning News
"A delight--more entertaining, if possible, than I remembered... the reader leaves George Plimpton's wide world of sports with deep reluctance.... His prose is as elegant and seemingly effortless as Ted Williams's swing or an Arnold Palmer iron shot.... His teammates recede--like the old baseball players vanishing into the cornfield inField of Dreams, taking their magical world with them but living on in fond memory."—Edward Kosner, Wall Street Journal
"Sports memoirs, like humor collections, rarely outlive their authors, but Plimpton's books have aged gracefully and even matured. Today they have the additional (and unintended) appeal of vivid history, bearing witness to a mythical era."—Nathaniel Rich,New York Review of Books
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Out of My League chronicles what happened next as his inspired idea - to get on the mound and pitch a few innings to the All-Stars of the American and National Leagues - got seriously out of hand.
Out of My League chronicles what happened next as his inspired idea - to get on the mound and pitch a few innings to the All-Stars of the American and National Leagues - got seriously out of hand.