Bill Gruber

Baseball in a Grain of Sand

Seeing the Game through a Small Town Season

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Produktbeschreibung

Part sports journalism, part history, part memoir, this many-sided narrative follows one season with the Blue Devils of Moscow, Idaho--a rural American Legion baseball team. Showcasing baseball's enduring place in American life, the author draws on the lore of the game, and conversations with diverse fans and players--an outdoorsman juggling his son's schedule of games with bear hunting; a bewildered German college student, holding a baseball for the first time; former St. Louis Cardinal pitcher & Yale baseball coach John Stuper; the proud owner of a Derek Jeter jersey in Hokendauqua, Pennsylvania, to name a few.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9781476673172
• ISBN-10: 1476673179
• Artikelnr.: 50508489

Autorenporträt

Bill Gruber is an emeritus professor at Emory University. The author of numerous academic books and articles, he lives in Moscow, Idaho.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Preface: Baseball in the Boonies One-Imperfect Games: Richland
Hanford
May 31
June 1 Two-Time Travel: Lewiston
Post Falls
Rathdrum
June 9
13-15 Three-On the Road: Libby
June 20-22 Four-Fields of Play: St. Maries
Orofino
June 27
30 Five-The National Game: Moscow
Spokane
July 1-5 Six-Pitching Lessons: Lewiston
July 10-13 Seven-Home and Away: Moscow
July 14 Eight-The Model Baseball Player: Lewiston
July 18 Nine-That Thing in the Sun: Moscow
September 8 Chapter Notes Index