Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball) (Fathers Playing Catch with Sons PR)
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Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)
EN USISBN: 0865471681 bzw. 9780865471689, in Englisch, North Point Press, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Lagernd.
baseball,essays,essays and correspondence,literature and fiction,miscellaneous,sports and outdoors, Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball) (Fathers Playing Catch with Sons PR), Half of my poet friends," confides Donald Hall, one of America's best poets and essayists, "think I am insane to waste my time writing about sports and to loiter in the company of professional athletes. The other half would murder to take my place." Either way, aficionados--both of games and words--should simply be thankful. Hall's lyrical voice, graceful craft, and spiritual bravado are evident throughout from the opening title essay--a first-person reminiscence of a spring-training sojourn with the Pirates--to a meditation on football that serves as the volume's final gun. In between, he offers lovely, finely tuned odes to Fenway Park, Old Timers' games, Ping-Pong, and former Celtic forward Kevin McHale. From a reader's perspective, "Proseball," a grand tour of baseball literature, is particularly poignant; as Hall goes down his line-up, your heart should break when you realize just how much good writing--from Roger Angell, Thomas Boswell, and Red Smith, for starters--is currently, and tragically, out of print. --Jeff Silverman.
baseball,essays,essays and correspondence,literature and fiction,miscellaneous,sports and outdoors, Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball) (Fathers Playing Catch with Sons PR), Half of my poet friends," confides Donald Hall, one of America's best poets and essayists, "think I am insane to waste my time writing about sports and to loiter in the company of professional athletes. The other half would murder to take my place." Either way, aficionados--both of games and words--should simply be thankful. Hall's lyrical voice, graceful craft, and spiritual bravado are evident throughout from the opening title essay--a first-person reminiscence of a spring-training sojourn with the Pirates--to a meditation on football that serves as the volume's final gun. In between, he offers lovely, finely tuned odes to Fenway Park, Old Timers' games, Ping-Pong, and former Celtic forward Kevin McHale. From a reader's perspective, "Proseball," a grand tour of baseball literature, is particularly poignant; as Hall goes down his line-up, your heart should break when you realize just how much good writing--from Roger Angell, Thomas Boswell, and Red Smith, for starters--is currently, and tragically, out of print. --Jeff Silverman.
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Fathers Playing Catch With Sons: Essays On Sport (Mostly Baseball), Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball) (1984)
EN PB NWISBN: 9780865471689 bzw. 0865471681, in Englisch, North Point Press, Taschenbuch, neu.
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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 game -- Walt 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. The essays 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.Taal: Engels;Afmetingen: 14x210x140 mm;Gewicht: 117,00 gram;Verschijningsdatum: januari 1984;ISBN10: 0865471681;ISBN13: 9780865471689; Engelstalig | Paperback | 1984.
bol.com.
In the pantheon of great sports literature, not a few poets have tried their hand at paying tribute to their love affair with the game -- Walt 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. The essays 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.Taal: Engels;Afmetingen: 14x210x140 mm;Gewicht: 117,00 gram;Verschijningsdatum: januari 1984;ISBN10: 0865471681;ISBN13: 9780865471689; Engelstalig | Paperback | 1984.
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Fathers Playing Catch with Sons : Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball) (Mostly Baseball) (1985)
EN USISBN: 9780865471689 bzw. 0865471681, in Englisch, North Point Press, gebraucht.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Better World Books Ltd [53572034], Dunfermline, United Kingdom.
Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside.
Ships from the UK. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside.
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