(xii) 388 pp. Please note, this is a very heavy book and, depending where in the world you are, the shipping might be higher than normal. Quarter-bound in green cloth on beige boards; decorated in gilt on the spine; headband; green upper edge. Some wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a few short tears around the edges; price clipped; no interior markings. Illustrated with drawings by James Stevenson. There are far too many writers and articles here to list them all but some of the highlights are: Foreword by Peter V. Ueberroth; The Web of the Game by Roger Angell; Who's on First? - Anonlymous; The Grip by Jim Bouton; The Extinction of the .400 Hitter by Stephen Jay Gould; Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa by W. P. Kinsella; A Busher's Letters Home by Ring Lardner; Lines Composed in Exaltation Over the North Atlantic by James Michener; La Vie en Rose by Pete Rose; Josh - The Black Babe Ruth, or was Ruth the White Josh Gibson by Robert Peterson; My Baseball Years by Philip Roth; Pick-up Game by John Sayles; No Jury Would Convict by Irwin Shaw; Howard Ehmke by Red Smith; The Silent Season of a Hero - Joe DiMaggion by Gay Talese; Franks Chance's Diamond - Why Ring Lardner Soured on Baseball by Jonathan Yardley; and many, many more. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

THE ARMCHAIR BOOK OF BASEBALL

Publisher

Charles Scribner's Sons - Scribners, New York

Publication Date

1985

Language

English

ISBN 10

0684184826

ISBN 13

9780684184821

Binding

Hardcover

Illustrator

James Stevenson;

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Very Good

Book Type

Book

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Sports - Baseball

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A collection of articles and commentaries about America's favorite pastime, features bestselling writers such as Thomas Boswell, James Michener, and Philip Roth, and sportswriters including Roger Angell, Roger Kahn, and Jim Murray

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