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Baseball's Best Short Stories is, quite simply, a winner machine, grinding out--one as soon as the other, 28 selections in all--just what its title promises. Leading served by Ernest Thayer's classic poem, "Casey with the Bat," it segues straight into Frank Deford's rumination products happened to Casey once the poetry stopped, then rounds up the usual subjects: Zane Grey's "The Rube's Waterloo," Ring Lardner's "Alibi Ike" and "My Roomy," James Thurber's "You Could Look It Up," P.G. Wodehouse's "The Pitcher and the Plutocrat," Damon Runyon's "Baseball Hattie," T. Coraghessan Boyle's "The Hector Quesadilla Story," and, behind them, a bullpen of considerable depth and breadth. Staudohar steps up with a paragraph of context and biographical data for each and every piece, but his overall introduction is merely short and serviceable; real fans of baseball's ample literature will probably wish it went deeper in studying the long and rich tradition that his collection engagingly sends to the plate. --Jeff Silverman
With the present malaise surrounding the sport, the time is ripe for this excellent collection chronicling more than a century of America's love affair with baseball. With an all-star cast of writers sucked from various eras and genres, Staudohar (Labor Relations in Professional Sports) demonstrates how thoroughly the game permeates American life?its psychology, sense of drama, mythology and moral code provide archetypes familiar even to those that have not set foot inside a ballpark. The tales dramatize the conflicts between youth and experience, pride and humility, skill and luck, team loyalty and personal ambition. Master storytellers like Ring Lardner (author of three entries here), Zane Grey, Damon Runyon, P.G. Wodehouse, Robert Penn Warren, James Thurber, Garrison Keillor and T. Coraghessan Boyle celebrate the national pastime in 27 memorable tales and something poem, some poignant, some uproarious, each introduced by the brief editor's note. Baseball and literary fans may debate whether these are indeed the "best" baseball stories (where's George Plimpton's "The Curious Case of Sydd Finch"?). So many good writers have felt the must write about baseball that compiling an excellent anthology of baseball fiction isn't the toughest of tasks. Still, even though this project is often a bit of an hanging curveball, Staudohar has hit it with the park.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to a away from print or unavailable edition of the title.
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