2006 ELYSIAN FIELDS QUARTERLY BASEBALL JOURNAL

Description: Cover features Yankee Stadium, the "House that Ruth Built" and that George tore asunder. Highlights: Yankee Stadium to be demolished? Absurd. What about all that great history, including Mickey Mantle's mammoth blast on Memorial Day, 1956? Ed Weathers captures the majesty of the grand old park with his quirky, poignant remembrance ("Hitting the Facade"), which is our cover story. What are the similarities and distinctions of baseball and cricket? Read Tom Brennan's "It's a Hard Game," a humorous and informative essay about the topic. Sometimes baseball is the only topic around which conversation can happen, a theme that Elizabeth Frank explores beautifully in "The Family Language." Then again, there are also subjects on which we almost never agree, a topic that Staff Writer tackles with "True Believers," the previously unknown tale of a worldwide religious brouhaha acted out on the baseball diamond. "Shotgun Wedding" is true crime researcher Mark Gribben's account of how a woman's affair with ballplayer Case Patten in early twentieth-century Kansas City led to a forced marriage that ended in tragedy. Fine fiction includes Tom Snee's "Elmira," a tale of a high school romance that butts up against the pull of a baseball career, while Andy Bailey's "High and Inside" is a story of the pain that one untimely pitch can inflict on many participants in a high school championship game. Poetry selections focus on the timeless nature of baseball, the agony of knowing your team will blow the big game, and the end of a historic big league career (Michael Schein's "Farewell to Edgar") Book reviews include The Greatest Ballpark Ever (winner of the 2005 Dave Moore Award), Forging Genius, Smithsonian Baseball, Peach, and Mind Game. Volume 23, Number 3. Length: 96 pages. 6x9" format. Note: From 1992 through 2008, Elysian Fields Quarterly was the pre-eminent journal of baseball literature and culture--a beautiful 6x9 perfect-bound publication packed with articles, essays, poetry, fiction, book reviews, humor, fantasy lineups, quirky illustrations, and a great deal more. Like its predecessor, The Minneapolis Review of Baseball, EFQ featured contributors ranging from accomplished academics to first-time writers, and forged a special niche among readers that wasn't dependent on mainstream sportswriters or pundits to give it credibility. Although the publication went on hiatus in 2008, perhaps a comeback might still be around the corner. Issue is in new condition, leftover from unsold original inventory. Visit www.efqreview.com for more details about the journal and to read sample articles. Thanks for your interest in this item, and please check out our other listings.

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