Summer Baseball Nation: Nine Days in the Wood Bat Leagues
Autor Will Geogheganen Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 mar 2020
Summer Baseball Nation chronicles a season in America’s summer collegiate baseball leagues. From the Cape to Alaska and a lot of places in between, Will Geoghegan tells the stories of a summer: eighteen of the best college players in the country playing Wiffle ball on Cape Cod, the Midnight Sun Game in Alaska, a California legend picking up another win, home runs flying into Lake Michigan, and the namesake of an old Minor League club packing the same charming ballpark. At every stop, players chase dreams while players and fans alike savor the moment.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781496213990
ISBN-10: 1496213998
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Nebraska
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 1496213998
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Nebraska
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Locul publicării:United States
Notă biografică
Will Geoghegan is an award-winning sportswriter in Rhode Island who covers the Newport Gulls and Ocean State Waves of the New England Collegiate Baseball League. Since 2007 he has written about the Cape League at rightfieldfog.com.
Cuprins
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Cape Cod
2. Newport
3. Fairbanks
4. Santa Barbara
5. Cape Cod
6. Kenosha
7. Washington DC
8. Hampton
9. Cape Cod
10. Extra Innings
Acknowledgments
1. Cape Cod
2. Newport
3. Fairbanks
4. Santa Barbara
5. Cape Cod
6. Kenosha
7. Washington DC
8. Hampton
9. Cape Cod
10. Extra Innings
Recenzii
"A charming book about a charming element of American life."—David M. Shribman, Wall Street Journal
"This book is highly recommended to readers as an enjoyable and informative baseball history."—Anna R. Newton, NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture
"This is an informative examination of an overlooked form of grassroots baseball that, for some players, can be an important step to the major leagues."—Wes Lukowsky, Booklist
"Reading this makes one realize that there is so much more to the game than just the big money and big statistics. This book is baseball at the grass roots and it is so much fun to read that it comes highly recommended for any baseball fan."—Guy Who Reviews Sports Books
“Will Geoghegan’s beautifully written and richly detailed Summer Baseball Nation reminds one of why baseball—in its purest and most innocent form—is still the greatest of all sports.”—Erik Sherman, New York Times best-selling coauthor of After the Miracle: The Lasting Brotherhood of the ’69 Mets
“If you’ve ever felt like pulling off the road to witness the last stop before WAR and OPS and WHIP stats overpower grassroots baseball, this is the book for you. Feel the breeze of a Cape Cod summer and the sound of wood bats hitting baseballs. Love this book.”—Marty Appel, New York Yankees historian and author of Pinstripe Empire and Casey Stengel
Descriere
With nine days as the stage, Summer Baseball Nation tells the stories of America’s summer collegiate baseball leagues, from coastal New England to central Alaska.