The New York Mets
Ethnography, Myth, and Subtext
Written by Richard Grossinger, Foreword by Mike Vacarro
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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...
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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
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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...
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Baseball I Gave You All the Best Years of My Life
Fifth Edition
Edited by Richard Grossinger and Lisa Conrad
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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...
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