Fathers Playing Catch with Sons
Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball)
Nonfiction, Sports, Reference, Essays, Baseball
| Author: | Donald Hall | ISBN: | 9781466897267 |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | Publication: | August 8, 2017 |
| Imprint: | North Point Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Donald Hall |
| ISBN: | 9781466897267 |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Publication: | August 8, 2017 |
| Imprint: | North Point Press |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
