Baseball Days : From the Sandlots to the Show

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Pub. Date: 1999-03-01
Publisher(s): Consortium Book Sales & Dist
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Summary

Baseball Days celebrates America's best game in all its manifestations. Bill Littlefield doesn't overlook the stars, but he is even more intrigued by the has-beens, never-weres and wannabes. Mark McGwire and Ted Williams are here, but so are Harold "Shifty" Gears and the Dynamite Lady, who blows herself up at a different park each night.

Author Biography

Bill Littlefield is the host of NPR's syndicated sports program "Only A Game."

Table of Contents

Introduction 2(2)
How to be a Baseball Writer 4(2)
Pitchers and Catchers Report
6(1)
The Derivatives
7(4)
Pitching
11(4)
Little League
15(3)
Welcome, Dreamers...The Tryout Camp
18(2)
Spring Training
20(3)
Yearning Toward the Show
23(5)
Style
28(6)
Hitting
34(3)
Bats
37(1)
Fans
38(6)
``Hey! Sign This! Sign This! Gimme a Ball!''
44(4)
The Places of the Game
48(6)
Fielding
54(7)
Rain Delay
61(2)
Rhubarbs
63(4)
Players and Their Moments
67(2)
Johnny Pesky
Luis Tiant
Amateur Ball
69(6)
Baseball Man
75(7)
Winter Ball
82(5)
Umpires
87(4)
A Real World Series
91(4)
Old-timers and Their Games
95(6)
Our Game at Century's End
101(6)
Double Duty Radcliffe
107(4)
Epilogue: Closing Day 111(4)
Acknowledgments 115

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