The New York Mets
Ethnography, Myth, and Subtext
Written by Richard Grossinger, Foreword by Mike Vacarro
Price: $16.95
Frog Books
No baseball team has captured America’s imagination like the Mets. Alternately the “Lovable Losers” and the “Miracle Mets,” New York’s other team offers fascinating fodder for writer Richard Grossinger in this thoughtful collection. The New York Mets is a series of probing essays on the best and most interesting years of...
|
If I Never Get Back
A Novel
Written by Darryl Brock
Price: $15.95
Frog Books
Contemporary reporter Sam Fowler, stuck in a dull job and a failing marriage, abruptly finds himself transported back to the summer of 1869. After a wrenching period of adjustment, he comes to feel rejuvenated by his involvement with the nation's first pro baseball players. He also finds his senses quickening and...
|
Two in the Field
A Novel
Written by Darryl Brock
Price: $15.95
Frog Books
In this sequel to the best-selling If I Never Get Back, Sam Fowler manages to break into the past once again—but this time it’s 1875. Gripped by an economic depression, America is a darker place. Again Sam falls in with ballplayers, but spins off on his own seeking the whereabouts of...
|
Things Happen for a Reason
The True Story of an Itinerant Life in Baseball
Written by Terry Leach and Tom Clark, Preface by Paul Auster and David Cone
Price: $14.95
Frog Books
Born in 1953 in Selma, Alabama, Terry Leach first plays baseball as a Little Leaguer. In college, he stars at Auburn until an arm injury threatens his future. He recovers sufficiently to pitch sidearm and enter the independent leagues in Louisiana, which leads to his major league career. For every Sosa...
|
How My Mother Accidentally Tossed Out My Entire Baseball-Card Collection
and Other Sports Stories
Written by Bob Mitchell
Price: $12.95
Frog Books
"Sports inspires fascination, and so I've written about sports of all shapes and colors...Taking place in locales as varied as Boro Park and Williamstown, Columbus and West Lafayette, Maine and Texas, Maui and Tel Aviv. And with story-lines that I've found to be ceaselessly thought-provoking. The cosmic significance of baseball cards...
|
Rowdy Richard
The Story of Dick Bartell
Written by Dick Bartell and Norman Macht
Price: $18.95
North Atlantic Books
This is a definitive, analytical look at the style of the game, the characters of the ear, the managers, the owners, told by "the most exuberant rowdy of them all." Bartell covers the period from 1927 to 1954, baseball’s golden age: the Gashouse Gang; McGraw; the 1927 Yankees; the Giants-Dodgers feud...
|
Baseball I Gave You All the Best Years of My Life
Fifth Edition
Edited by Richard Grossinger and Lisa Conrad
Price: $12.95
North Atlantic Books
This book includes Donald Hall, Jack Kerouac, Robert Kelly, Bill Lee, Paul Metcalf, Anne Waldman, Tom Clark, and Bernadette Mayer. The quality of the work in this anthology varies widely, but the sheer unlikeliness of a volume of neo-beat baseball poetry and new-age-inflected essays cannot help but inspire generosity. The photography...
|
The DreamLife of Johnny Baseball
Edited by Richard Grossinger
Price: $9.95
North Atlantic Books
This book, along with the Temple of Baseball and Baseball, I Gave You the Best Years of My Life, makes a fantastic trilogy of personal baseball. The viewing experience is melded with playing, art, and life (before it was fashionable) into something great.
|
