Baseball I Gave You All the Best Years of My Life

by Kevin Kerrane

This volume is one of the strangest explorations of baseball customs ever assembled. The list of topics covered includes considerations of baseball in the context of Zen, the cold war, sexual relations, voodoo, growing up and Native American magic.... An ideal Christmas present for baseball addicts and unemployed softball players...

Genres: Baseball

416 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Kevin Kerrane (Ph. D., University of North Carolina ) has edited several anthologies of drama and has co-edited (with Ben Yagoda) The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism. He is the author of Dollar Sign on the Muscle: The World of Baseball Scouting, cited by Sports Illustrated as one of the "100 Best Sports Books of All Time." He is also the editor of a critical anthology about the Irish writer Billy Roche.

Many of Professor Kerrane's course focus on drama, especially Irish drama, and he often coordinates his classes with theatrical productions on or near campus. He also teaches courses on documentary film, and is an advisor for the annual Newark Film Festival as well as the regular Sunday night International Film Series on campus.

Reviews

[Logan · Rating 1 out of 5]

SUX!

Just a bunch of BAD poetry and prose about baseball. And it's not really that it's sentimental or anything like that, it's just BAD writing, for the most part. My offseason baseball reading is batting .000 so far.

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