Baseball Letters: A Fan's Correspondence With His Heroes - Hardcover

Swirsky, Seth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1568361521 ISBN 13: 9781568361529

Publisher: Kodansha Amer Inc, 1996

Synopsis

A fan's letters to baseball players are accompanied by the responses, offering personal and historical background to the game

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Baseball Letters did not start out as a book. When the baseball players went on strike in the summer of 1994, Seth Swirsky, missing the game he loved, wrote letters to hundreds of players -- past and present, famous and not so famous -- asking interesting questions pertaining to their lives and careers. To his amazement, almost all wrote back. In this book are those letters, reprinted as they were received by the author. Baseball Letters is a modern classic that provides fans with a human connection to their heroes.

Among this treasure trove of letters:
Cal Ripken, Jr., reminiscing about how baseball drew him closer to his father.
Ted Williams revealing the best batting tip he ever received.
Enos Slaughter describing his controversial encounter with Jackie Robinson.
Woody English challenging the legend of Babe Ruth "calling" his famous home run shot in the 1932 World Series.
Dave Stapleton wondering why he wasn't put in the field for Bill Buckner in game 6 of the 1986 World Series.

From the Back Cover:

"Page after page of unabashed innocence, love, and respect for the national pastime."
-- Tim Wendel, USA Today

"Baseball Letters is a reminder that the game still has some honesty and human warmth at its heart."
--People

"When your love of sports has waned to a nubbin, this book will restore your faith. . . . It's not literature, it's better."
-- Charlie Vincent, Detroit Free Press

About this edition

• Publisher: Kodansha Amer Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1568361521
• ISBN 13: 9781568361529
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 179