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Painting the Corners Again : Off-Center Baseball Fiction by Bob Weintraub (2015, Hardcover)

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"Painting the Corners Again" is Bob Weintraub's second marvelous collection of baseball stories. Weintraub shows us that baseball has its heroes and. Painting the Corners Again is Bob Weintraub's second marvelous collection of baseball stories.

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PublisherSkyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated

ISBN-101631580175

ISBN-139781631580178

eBay Product ID (ePID)204228443

Product Key Features

Book TitlePainting the Corners Again : Off-Center Baseball Fiction

Number of Pages416 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2015

TopicShort Stories (Single Author), Baseball / General, Sports

GenreSports & Recreation, Fiction

AuthorBob Weintraub

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight18.3 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"Weintraub has executed a triple play: savvy baseball writing, unforgettable characters, and a home run ending for each tale." --W. P. Kinsella, author of Shoeless Joe "Great storytelling for fans and nonfans alike. Bob Weintraub has big-league talent." --Dan Shaughnessy, author of The Curse of the Bambino and columnist for the Boston Globe, Weintraub has executed a triple play: savvy baseball writing, unforgettable characters, and a home run ending for each tale." —W. P. Kinsella, author of Shoeless Joe Great storytelling for fans and nonfans alike. Bob Weintraub has big-league talent." —Dan Shaughnessy, author of The Curse of the Bambino and columnist for the Boston Globe

Dewey Decimal813.6

SynopsisBaseball and the people who live and breathe it will seem closer and more vivid than ever. "Painting the Corners Again" is Bob Weintraub's second marvelous collection of baseball stories. It goes directly to the core of what America's pastime does for us when we watch it being played on the field. Weintraub shows us that baseball has its heroes and, Baseball and the people who live and breathe it will seem closer and more vivid than ever. Painting the Corners Again is Bob Weintraub's second marvelous collection of baseball stories. It goes directly to the core of what America's pastime does for us when we watch it being played on the field. Weintraub shows us that baseball has its heroes and its villains, and that they can reach into a person's life and remain a part of us for the rest of our days. Told from various perspectives, Painting the Corners Again offers the personal experiences of the baseball player, manager, general manager, coach, scout, owner, writer, broadcaster, and fan. Each strives for its own sense of authenticity and is full of characters that we recognize and want to spend time with. In this collection, the author digs beyond the statistics and numbers that sometimes dominate our view of a sport to get to the true humanity of baseball. W. P. Kinsella, author of Shoeless Joe (the novel on which Field of Dreams was based) says, "Weintraub has executed a triple play: savvy baseball writing, unforgettable characters, and a home run ending for each tale." Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction--novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home., Painting the Corners Again is Bob Weintraub's second marvelous collection of baseball stories. It goes directly to the core of what America's pastime does for us when we watch it being played on the field. Weintraub shows us that baseball has its heroes and its villains, and that they can reach into a person's life and remain a part of us for the rest of our days. Told from varying perspectives, Painting the Corners Again offers the personal experiences of the baseball player, manager, general manager, coach, scout, owner, writer, broadcaster, and fan. Each story strives for its own sense of authenticity and is full of characters that we recognize and want to spend time with. In this collection, the author digs beyond the statistics and numbers that sometimes dominate our view of a sport and gets to the true humanity of baseball.

LC Classification NumberPS3623