Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)
- ISBN-10
- 1466897260
- ISBN-13
- 9781466897267
- Category
- Sports & Recreation
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-08-08
- Publisher
- North Point Press
- Author
- Donald Hall
Description
In the pantheon of great sports literature, not a few poets have tried their hand at paying tribute to their love affair with the game -- Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams among them. This elegant volume collects Donald Hall's prose about sports, concentrating on baseball but extending to basketball, football and Ping-Pong. The essays are a wonderful mixture of reminiscence and observation, of baseball and of fathers and sons, of how a game binds people together and bridges generations.
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- 1985
- 207 pages
- Paperback
- North Point Press
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