Playing Hard Ball

County Cricket and Big League Baseball

Nonfiction, Sports, Cricket
Cover of the book Playing Hard Ball by E.T. Smith, Little, Brown Book Group
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: E.T. Smith ISBN: 9780349140957
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group Publication: September 4, 2014
Imprint: Abacus Language: English
Author: E.T. Smith
ISBN: 9780349140957
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Publication: September 4, 2014
Imprint: Abacus
Language: English

PLAYING HARD BALL is a unique sports book, a cultural comparison of two national games - cricket, English in origin and American baseball - written from the viewpoint of a top-class practitioner of both codes. Ed Smith - the young Cambridge University and Kent batsman - has spent the winters since 1998 in Spring Training with the New York Mets baseball team. It has enabled Ed to contrast and compare arguably the two most iconic of sports from the inside. In fact, baseball had a thriving following in Britain until the Great War: Derby County's former stadium was called the Baseball Ground; Tottenham Hotspur was at first a baseball club. Apart from learning two very different techniques, Ed learned that the sports' ultimate heroes, the Babe and the Don - Babe Ruth and Don Bradman - might as well have come from different planets, whilst baseball's pristine Hall of Fame in Cooperstown is a far cry from the ramshackle cricket museum at Lord's. Ed Smith's PLAYING HARD BALL draws on these intriguing comparisons to paint a two-sided portrait of sports most illustrous 'hitting games'.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

PLAYING HARD BALL is a unique sports book, a cultural comparison of two national games - cricket, English in origin and American baseball - written from the viewpoint of a top-class practitioner of both codes. Ed Smith - the young Cambridge University and Kent batsman - has spent the winters since 1998 in Spring Training with the New York Mets baseball team. It has enabled Ed to contrast and compare arguably the two most iconic of sports from the inside. In fact, baseball had a thriving following in Britain until the Great War: Derby County's former stadium was called the Baseball Ground; Tottenham Hotspur was at first a baseball club. Apart from learning two very different techniques, Ed learned that the sports' ultimate heroes, the Babe and the Don - Babe Ruth and Don Bradman - might as well have come from different planets, whilst baseball's pristine Hall of Fame in Cooperstown is a far cry from the ramshackle cricket museum at Lord's. Ed Smith's PLAYING HARD BALL draws on these intriguing comparisons to paint a two-sided portrait of sports most illustrous 'hitting games'.

More books from Little, Brown Book Group

Cover of the book How To Sell Your Business For the Price You Want by E.T. Smith
Cover of the book The Cancer Survivor's Companion by E.T. Smith
Cover of the book Solve Your Skin Problems by E.T. Smith
Cover of the book The Creative Writer's Workshop, 5th Edition by E.T. Smith
Cover of the book Letters from Lighthouse Cottage by E.T. Smith
Cover of the book Mammoth Books Presents Baubo's Kiss by E.T. Smith
Cover of the book Energy Medicine For Women by E.T. Smith
Cover of the book The Mermaid's Scream by E.T. Smith
Cover of the book No More Dying by E.T. Smith
Cover of the book How To Be A Writer by E.T. Smith
Cover of the book The Punishment Room by E.T. Smith
Cover of the book Velvet Touch by E.T. Smith
Cover of the book Summer Half by E.T. Smith
Cover of the book No Mercy by E.T. Smith
Cover of the book Extreme Frontiers by E.T. Smith
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy