A report from the true heart of baseball, this anthology leaves
behind the bad boys and big names of the major leagues to take
readers to the places where the spirit of America's game resides.
These are a veteran sportswriter's dispatches from the bush leagues
and the sandlot, his tributes to the Negro leaguers, mining-town
dreamers, and certifiable eccentrics who give baseball its heart
and soul, laughter and tears. John Schulian, a long-time "Sports
Illustrated" contributor and former "Chicago Sun-Times" sports
columnist, puts together a portrait of a disappearing America--a
place inhabited by star-crossed Negro Leagues slugger Josh Gibson;
by a vagabond player still toiling for the Durham Bulls at
thirty-six; by the coach who created the Eskimo Pie League for kids
in a Utah copper-mining town. When he does venture into the big
leagues, Schulian gives us the underdogs and the human touches,
from Bill Veeck peg-legging toward retirement as the game's last
maverick team owner, to musings on Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe
at Christmas, to Studs Terkel's reflections on baseball. In the
end, though, this collection belongs to the kid at a tryout camp,
the washed-out semipro following the game on his car radio, the
players who were the toasts of outposts from Roswell to Wisconsin
Rapids--and to the readers who keep the spirit of the game alive.
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