For the Love of Baseball: A Celebration of the Game That Connects Us All

By Lee Gutkind

Book Overview

Stefan Fatsis sends his "stunningly perfect, consummately perfect, why-would-anyone-use-anything-else? perfect" glove to be restored by the glove designer at Rawlings. Frank Deford makes the case that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1510702733
• ISBN13: 9781510702738
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

If you love the game, you'll love the book

They say, once you get (beach) sand between your toes, you can never get it out. Well I say, once you get (a glove's) leather on your hand or the smell of the infield in your nose, you can never get it/them out. The short stories (by a veritable plethora of writers) all connect with the baseball fan and player in us. Some so much that I actually teared up reading them. If you played the game (at any level) you can often taste, smell and at times, feel the action being described. If you've never played but love the game as a fan, you too will be drawn in and seduced by some of these stories. I ranked each story/Chapter from 1-10, the overall book averaged a strong 8 1/2-with a bunch of "10s." Buy it for every baseball love you know-including your self