Keepers: Radio Stories from "Only A Game" & Elsewhere - Hardcover

Littlefield, Bill

9781883684181: Keepers: Radio Stories from

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1883684188 ISBN 13: 9781883684181

Publisher: Peninsula Pr, 1998

As the host of National Public Radio's "Only A Game," Bill Littlefield shares his quirky, somewhat highbrow, and often tongue-in-cheek take on sports with listeners on scores of radio stations across the nation. This collection provides clever, warm, and funny evidence that writing about those who play the games, as well as those who watch them, is as good a way as most to observe life on this planet.

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About the Author:

From WBUR in Boston, Bill Littlefield hosts National Public Radio's weekly sports magazine programs, "Only A Game". He is a Professor of Humanities and Writer-in-Residence at Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts. He lives near Boston with his wife and their two daughters.

From Publishers Weekly:

In a style Reminiscent of Hall-of-Fame sportswriter Jimmy Cannon in his particular fondness for the type of sports story that leaves a lump in the throat, Littlefield presents a collection of light and entertaining pieces written for station WBUR in Boston during the 1980s, NPR's Morning Edition and Only a Game, the show he hosts on NPR. The editor of Best Sports Writing of 1997, Littlefield has divided the book into four sections, corresponding to the seasons, but there is no doubt that his favorite sport is baseball and, like all professional masochists in New England, his favorite team is the Red Sox, so there are articles about Yastrzemski, Boggs, Clemens and Bill Lee. Essays on other sports range from swimming to bowling; general baseball selections that chronicle the joys of spring training and of introducing children to the game abound, but Littlefield exhibits little interest in the minutiae of trades and statistics. One unfortunate trait he shares with Cannon is a predilection for doggerel. But baseball sentimentalists, and NPR fans in particular, will excuse that.

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