The Dixon Cornbelt League and Other Baseball Stories
by:
W.P. Kinsella (author)
Written by one of the most distinctive storytellers today, this collection of nine stories lures the reader into a magical world of baseball where the game is always in season and all-star legends come alive to play beside would-be heroes. "Nine innings of magic."--USA Today.
Written by one of the most distinctive storytellers today, this collection of nine stories lures the reader into a magical world of baseball where the game is always in season and all-star legends come alive to play beside would-be heroes. "Nine innings of magic."--USA Today.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780803278165 (0803278160)
Publish date: September 1st 2004
Publisher: Bison Books
Pages no: 180
Edition language: English
It is a collection of baseball short stories. In one Caribbean outback, a player routinely transforms into a wolf, and continues to play. No one bats an eye. In The Fadeaway, an aging hurler conjures up Christy Mathewson, who teaches him how to throw a screwball. But the player never gets to try it ...