01818cam a2200277 4500 93499963 TxAuBib 20120104120000.0 010131s2001||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2001016819 9780156011549 0156011549 TxAuBib Home run / edited by George Plimpton. 1st ed. San Diego : Harcourt, INC., 2001. xx, 278 p. ; 21 cm. "A Harvest book.". A home-run chronology / George Plimpton -- That man from Mudville / Grantland Rice -- From The natural / Bernard Malamud -- Josh / Robert Peterson -- His majesty the king / Paul Gallico -- Kaleidoscope : personality of the Babe / Robert W. Creamer -- The Babe / Garrison Keillor -- Dream of a baseball star / Gregory Corso -- Hub fans bid kid adieu / John Updike -- Miracle of Coogan's bluff / Red Smith -- Pafko at the wall / Don DeLillo -- The record almost broke him / Rick Telander -- A matter of record / George Plimpton -- A zen way of baseball / Sadaharu Oh with David Falkner --Reggie Jackson's three homers / Red Smith -- Homeric tales / Roger Angell -- A pretty good day in the life of a research scientist / Daniel Paisner -- How to trot with no place to go / Rick Reilly. ORO: Gift of David C. Smith, Professor Emeritus, The University of Maine, History and Quaternary Studies. Home runs (Baseball) Anecdotes. Baseball stories, American. Plimpton, George. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/har051/2001016819.html Contributor biographical information https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/har031/2001016819.html Table of contents https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/har021/2001016819.html Publisher description