Baseball Is . . .: Defining the National Pastime (Dover Baseball) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 048648209X ISBN 13: 9780486482095

Verlag: Dover Publications Inc., 2011

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From Yogi Berra's rib-tickling "Berraisms" to Walt Whitman's "Baseball is our game &; the American game," this ideal gift for baseball fans drives home the fact that baseball is a game of many interpretations. It features hundreds of wisecracking, philosophical, nostalgic, and above all, entertaining quips and observations. Sources include players, their wives, managers, authors, and other enthusiasts, observers, and commentators, who remark on every aspect of what our national pastime has been and what it is today.

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Paul Dickson is a consulting editor for Dover and the author of more than 50 books. He has written Introductions for most of the books in our baseball series and all of the volumes in our NASA reprint series. His 2009 Norton book, The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, has been widely praised as one of the greatest baseball books of all time.

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From Yogi Berra's rib-tickling "Berraisms" to Walt Whitman's "Baseball is our game&;the American game," this ideal gift for baseball fans drives home the fact that baseball is a game of many interpretations. It features hundreds of wisecracking, philosophical, nostalgic, and above all, entertaining quips and observations. Sources include players, their wives, managers, authors, and other enthusiasts, observers, and commentators, who remark on every aspect of what our national pastime has been and what it is today.
Dover (2011) original publication.

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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Dover Publications Inc.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 048648209X
• ISBN 13: 9780486482095
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 247
• Herausgeber: Dickson Paul
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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