The Short Season (Penguin Sports Library) - Softcover

Falkner, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014009850X ISBN 13: 9780140098501

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1987

Synopsis

Major-league baseball's spring 1985 training season provides the basis for an examination of the history, activities, and personalities of spring training and the methods and hopes involved

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Spring training, a practice which began 100 years ago, is as integral a part of the national pastime as the World Series, although different ballclubs attach varying degrees of importance to it. Looking at one training seasonthe spring of 1985Falkner concentrates on the teams in the American League East, in his view the nation's toughest division, although there are also observations about the Phillies, the Reds, etc. Perhaps as a result of his earlier book, Sadaharu Oh: A Zen Way of Baseball, Falkner at first interprets his subject in the light of Eastern philosophies, an approach that readers not similarly inclined may find boring. But once he gets down to baseball on its own terms the book becomes more interesting, with portraits of the teams, accounts of some significant games, profiles of his favorite stars and a beautifully written epilogue.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 014009850X
• ISBN 13: 9780140098501
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 276