Short Season and Other Stories
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Each night, from April through August, up to a quarter of a million people in small towns and cities across America watch minor league baseball, experiencing the ups and downs of their local team -- every move, every player, every inning. Welcome to the world of Short Season. Meet the Mason City Royals. Live with the team for five months, across eight mid-western towns, with "no more than two days off from April through August and a night-long bus ride every three to six days." Join in the triumphs and misadventures of its collection of hopefuls and has-beens as they get to know each other in English and Spanish, admire baseball groupies, crisscross backroads propelled by a beery-eyed driver in a rattletrap bus, play cards, steal cars, get sent up and down, and somehow through it all play good enough ball to become the Class A champions. -- Provided by publisher
Keywords
Baseball stories, American;
Document Type
Book
ISBN
9780801836145
Publication Date
1988
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
City
Baltimore, MD
Department
Department of Languages and Literatures
Object Description
x, 187 p. ; 24 cm
Language
en
Recommended Citation
Klinkowitz, Jerome, "Short Season and Other Stories" (1988). Faculty Book Gallery. 241.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facbook/241
