Research Catalog

Title

Religion in modern baseball fiction : [the great god baseball] / Allen E. Hye.

Author

Hye, Allen E.

Publication

Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, 2004.

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Details

Description

192 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Sports and religion

Uniform Title

Sports and religion.

Alternative Title

Great god Baseball

Subject

• Baseball stories, American > History and criticism
• Baseball in literature
• Religion in literature
• Récits de base-ball américains > Histoire et critique
• Base-ball dans la littérature
• Religion dans la littérature
• Baseball stories, American
• Baseball Motiv
• Religion Motiv
• Roman
• USA

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-187) and index.

Contents

Spring Training: Introduction -- Pre-Game Show: Brief Overview of Baseball Fiction and Criticism -- Innings -- The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (1954) / Douglass Wallop -- Spitballs & Holy Water (1977) / James F. Donohue -- The Seventh Babe (1979) / Jerome Charyn -- Shoeless Joe (1982) / W.P. Kinsella -- The Celebrant (1983) / Eric Rolfe Greenberg -- Things Invisible to See (1984) / Nancy Willard -- The Iowa Baseball Confederacy (1986) / W.P. Kinsella -- The Brothers K (1992) / David James Duncan -- Havana Heat (2000) / Darryl Brock -- Extra Innings: Appendix -- Thumbnail Sketches of Other Works -- Religious and Baseball Art -- All-Religious Name Baseball Club -- Baseball in the Bible -- Two Tall Tales -- Quiz on "Religion as Baseball" -- Quotable Quotes.

ISBN

• 0865549397
• 9780865549395
• 086554931X (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2004270429

OCLC

• ocm55033050
• 55033050
• SCSB-1330561

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library