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The Long Season de Jim Brosnan

The Long Season

Autor Jim Brosnan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 ian 2002
The classic inside account of a baseball year by a major league pitcher. It begins, appropriately, with the winter doldrums and "sweating out" a new contract, then follows the author and his family to spring training in Florida and through the full season s schedule to October. "One of the best baseball books ever written. It is probably one of the best American diaries as well." New York Times Book Review. "The greatest baseball book ever written." Jimmy Cannon."
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781566634182
ISBN-10: 1566634180
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 140 x 213 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Ivan R. Dee Publisher

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The classic inside account of a baseball year by a major league pitcher. It begins, appropriately, with the winter doldrums and sweating out a new contract, then follows the author and his family to spring training in Florida and through the full season's schedule to October. One of the best baseball books ever written. It is probably one of the best American diaries as well. --New York Times Book Review

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Arguably the greatest sports memoir ever penned, The Long Season was a revelation when it was first published in 1960. Here is an insider’s perspective on America’s national pastime that is funny, honest, and, above all, real. The man behind this fascinating account of baseball and its players was not a sportswriter but a self-proclaimed “average ballplayer”—a relief pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. Called “Professor” by his teammates and “Meat” by his wife, Jim Brosnan turned out to be the ideal guide to the behind-the-scenes world of professional baseball with his keen observations, sharp wit, and clear-eyed candor.
His player’s diary takes readers on the mound and on the road, inside the clubhouse and most enjoyably inside his own head. While solving age-old questions like “Why can’t pitchers hit?” and “What makes for the best chewing tobacco?” Brosnan captures the game-to-game daily experiences of an ordinary season, unapologetically, “the way I saw it”—from sweating out spring training to blowing the opening game and then being traded midseason to the Cincinnati Reds.
In The Long Season, Brosnan reveals, like no other sportswriter before him, the human side of professional ballplayers and has forever preserved not only a season but also a uniquely American experience.

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“Takes readers inside the clubhouse, the dugout, and the bullpen-not to mention the airplane, the train and the hotel room-in ways no sportswriter ever has.” — Washington Post
“Rich and always interesting....This is the most authentic and convincing book about baseball I have ever read.” — Los Angeles Times
“Funny, candid, and even more interesting because it doesn’t chronicle an exceptional season (something Brosnan reserved for his second book, Pennant Race, 1962), this book was a game changer.” — Booklist
“One of the best baseball books ever written. It is probably one of the best American diaries as well.” — New York Times

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