Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)
The essays in Fathers Playing Catch with Sons are a wonderful mixture of reminiscence and observation, of baseball and of fathers and sons, of how a game binds people together and bridges generations.
In the pantheon of great sports literature, not a few poets have tried their hand at paying tribute to their love affair with the gameWalt Whitman, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams among them. This elegant volume collects Donald Hall's prose about sports, concentrating on baseball but extending to basketball, football and Ping-Pong.
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In the pantheon of great sports literature, not a few poets have tried their hand at paying tribute to their love affair with the gameWalt Whitman, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams among them. This elegant volume collects Donald Hall's prose about sports, concentrating on baseball but extending to basketball, football and Ping-Pong.
Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)
The essays in Fathers Playing Catch with Sons are a wonderful mixture of reminiscence and observation, of baseball and of fathers and sons, of how a game binds people together and bridges generations.
In the pantheon of great sports literature, not a few poets have tried their hand at paying tribute to their love affair with the gameWalt Whitman, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams among them. This elegant volume collects Donald Hall's prose about sports, concentrating on baseball but extending to basketball, football and Ping-Pong.
In the pantheon of great sports literature, not a few poets have tried their hand at paying tribute to their love affair with the gameWalt Whitman, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams among them. This elegant volume collects Donald Hall's prose about sports, concentrating on baseball but extending to basketball, football and Ping-Pong.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780865471689 |
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Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Publication date: | 01/01/1984 |
Series: | Fathers Playing Catch with Sons PR , #1 |
Pages: | 208 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.47(d) |
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