With baseball central to each of these stories of the Mason City Royals, the author spins witty, evocative tales of a group of has-beens, would-bes, and rising stars in a minor league team destined for glory
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"Klinkowitz combines astute observations and analyses with renderings as leisurely and graceful as the game itself... Short Season stands out as a vivid evocation of a rich and colorful part of the summer game, and deserves a spot on the roster of first-rate baseball books." -- Washington Post
"I have known Jerry Klinkowitz only as one of this country's most interesting and responsible literary critics. It comes as a complete surprise that he writes first-rate baseball stories as well. Is there a chance that he is the illegitimate child of Ring Lardner and Edmund Wilson's sister?" -- Kurt Vonnegut
Jerry Klinkowitz is executive director of the Waterloo Indians, a farm team of the Cleveland Indians. In the off-season, he teaches at the University of Northern Iowa and has published twenty books of literary and cultural criticism.
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