Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball

by Donald Hall

Overview

One of America's finest poets joins forces with one of baseball's most outrageous pitchers to paint a revealing portrait of our national game. Donald Hall's forceful, yet elegant, prose brings together all the elements of Dock Ellis's story into a seamless whole. The two of them, the pitcher and the poet, give us remarkable insight into the customs and culture of this closed clannish world. Dock's keen vision, filtered through Hall's extraordinary voice, shows us the hardships and problems of the thinking athlete in an unthinking world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780671659882
Publisher:	Touchstone
Publication date:	04/15/1989
Series:	Fireside Sports Classics Series
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	658,811
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Donald Hall is the author of nine collections of poetry, the Caldecott Award-winning children’s book The Ox-Cart Man, and a collection of essays on sports, Fathers Playing Catch with Sons. He lives in Danbury, New Hampshire.

Table of Contents

1	The Country of Baseball	9
2	Black Graffiti	57
3	The Season, and Mr. Brewer	89
4	The Gas Man Keeping It Low	123
5	Coming Up and Staying Up	149
6	Two Games in July, and One in August	221
7	1975	261
8	The Adjustment	315

Editorial Reviews

Outspoken and fiercely independent, black athlete Ellis refused to ingratiate himself with baseball's powers-that-be, a decision that hindered his career. While with the Pittsburgh Pirates, he achieved a certain notoriety for appearing on the field with his hair in curlers or wearing a gold earring. PW called this biography ``nothing special.'' (Apr.)

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