Bunts
Free Press · Paperback · March 4, 1999
In this New York Times bestseller, Pulitzer Prize-winning author George F. Will returns to baseball with more than seventy finely honed pieces about the sometimes recondite, sometimes frustrating, yet always passionately felt national pastime.
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- Who it’s for
- George F. Will brings a thoughtful, sometimes wry eye to baseball’s pleasures and frustrations.
- Themes
- Baseball essays, Baseball history and figures, Baseball seasons and culture
- Genres
- Baseball Essays, Baseball History, Sports Writing
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In this New York Times bestseller, Pulitzer Prize-winning author George F. Will returns to baseball with more than seventy finely honed pieces about the sometimes recondite, sometimes frustrating, yet always passionately felt national pastime. Here are Will's eulogy for the late Curt Flood ("Dred Scott in Spikes"), Will on Ted Williams ("When Ted Williams retired in 1960, a sportswriter said that Boston knew how Britain felt when it lost India.
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Indeed, Britain felt diminished, but also a bit relieved"), and Will on his own baseball career ("I was a very late draft choice of the Mittendorf Funeral Home Panthers. Our color was black"). Here are subjects ranging from the author's 1977 purchase of a single share of stock in the Chicago Cubs to the memorable 1998 season, which is discussed in an all-new essay. For fans of Men at Work and Will's other baseball writings, this book is as pleasurable as a well-executed bunt.
The Game, Considered
George F. Will brings a thoughtful, sometimes wry eye to baseball’s pleasures and frustrations.
Come here for
- Finely honed essays on figures from Curt Flood to Ted Williams
- A personal sideline, from a childhood team to one share of Cubs stock
Expect
- More than seventy pieces, including a new essay on the 1998 season
- Baseball treated as both a national pastime and a subject worth pondering
Where it sits
| Baseball Essays | 98% |
|---|---|
| Baseball History | 54% |
| Sports Writing | 36% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Sports & Recreation
- Baseball
- Baseball Essays
- Authors
- George F. Will
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Published
- March 4, 1999
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Baseball essays · Baseball history and figures · Baseball seasons and culture
- Reading lane
- Sports & Recreation