Baseball literary journals: the grass-roots literature of the game.(TRIPLE PLAY)

Nine | September 22, 2005| | Copyright

The literature of baseball is perhaps the richest of any sport. A wealth of histories, biographies, and reference works as well as novels, poems, plays, and movies is associated with the game. When reflecting on baseball writing, one may be drawn to think of such well-known writers as Roger Angell, Bill James, and W. P. Kinsella, and such landmark books as The Glory of Their Times, The Natural, and Moneyball. However, just as baseball is not limited to the Major Leagues but is also played on sandlots and in backyards around the world, the literature of baseball is not confined to ...

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