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Extra innings : writing on baseball
- Title
- Extra innings : writing on baseball / Richard Peterson ; foreword by Eliot Asinof.
- Author
- Peterson, Richard F.
- Publication
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2001], ©2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS169.B36 P48 2001 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvi, 171 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
- Series Statement
- Sport and society
- Uniform Title
- Sport and society.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-165) and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Eliot Asinof -- 1. Soaking Clete Boyer: A True Cooperstown Story -- 2. The Word of Baseball: Creating a Narrative -- 3. This Must Be Heaven: Baseball's Paradise Lost and Regained -- 4. Spalding, Spink, and the First Standard History of Baseball -- 5. The Modern Historian's Game: Mixing Dream and Reality -- 6. Only Fairy Tales: Baseball Fiction's Short Game -- 7. Naturals and Supernaturals: Baseball Fiction's Long Game -- 8. Jackie Robinson and the Serious Baseball Novel -- 9. Barbarians at the Plate: The Postmodern Baseball Writer -- 10. In Defense of Baseball Books -- 11. How to Write a True Baseball Story.
- ISBN
- 0252026470 (acid-free paper)
- 0252069609 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 00011381
- OCLC
- ocm45015743
- SCSB-4132099
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries