- Taschenbuch: 247 Seiten
- Verlag: Dover Pubn Inc; Auflage: Green. (20. April 2011)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 048648209X
- ISBN-13: 978-0486482095
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 13,7 x 14 x 1,5 cm
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Baseball is...a lot of fun
5. Juni 2011
Format:Taschenbuch
What an enjoyable little book! Paul Dickson, well known for his writing on the history of baseball and other aspects of American history, has assembled a witty and sometimes funny collection of comments from a range of people characterizing the game we all love, whether we know it or not. Baseball has long been used as a metaphor for life, meaning, the universe, God, and anything else anyone can think of. I have heard it used to teach lessons in the bedroom, the board room, and the bar; in the church and in the community center; and even on the all knowing, all seeing television.
Here are just a few of my favorite statements from the book:
* "Baseball is simple but never easy"--Roger Angell.
* "In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department"--Anonymous.
* "Baseball is the slowest sport this side of long-distance needlepoint"--Russell Baker.
* "Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical"--Yogi Berra.
* "Baseball is the only sport where you can do everything 100 percent right and still fail"--Wade Boggs.
* "Baseball, my son, is the cornerstone of civilization"--Dagwood Bumstead.
* "Baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery"--Ty Cobb.
* "Baseball is a romance, marked by good days and bad, heartaches and thrills, ups and downs, but always with each day promising something new"--Michele Walters Costa.
* "Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only time we get to shake a bat at a white man without starting the riot"--Dick Gregory.
* "Baseball is the only game you can see on the radio"--Phil Hersh.
* "Baseball is the most important thing in life that doesn't matter"--Robert B. Parker.
* "Baseball is never boring. Which makes it like sex"--Annie Savoy.
* "It is said that baseball is only a game. Yes, and the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona"--George Will.
Buck up baseball fans, this book is for you. It contains a loving set of statements about baseball and its meaning. Some of them are trite, some silly, some compelling, some enlightening, and some provocative. All of them are entertaining.
Here are just a few of my favorite statements from the book:
* "Baseball is simple but never easy"--Roger Angell.
* "In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department"--Anonymous.
* "Baseball is the slowest sport this side of long-distance needlepoint"--Russell Baker.
* "Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical"--Yogi Berra.
* "Baseball is the only sport where you can do everything 100 percent right and still fail"--Wade Boggs.
* "Baseball, my son, is the cornerstone of civilization"--Dagwood Bumstead.
* "Baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery"--Ty Cobb.
* "Baseball is a romance, marked by good days and bad, heartaches and thrills, ups and downs, but always with each day promising something new"--Michele Walters Costa.
* "Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only time we get to shake a bat at a white man without starting the riot"--Dick Gregory.
* "Baseball is the only game you can see on the radio"--Phil Hersh.
* "Baseball is the most important thing in life that doesn't matter"--Robert B. Parker.
* "Baseball is never boring. Which makes it like sex"--Annie Savoy.
* "It is said that baseball is only a game. Yes, and the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona"--George Will.
Buck up baseball fans, this book is for you. It contains a loving set of statements about baseball and its meaning. Some of them are trite, some silly, some compelling, some enlightening, and some provocative. All of them are entertaining.
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A perfect gift for any baseball lover
24. April 2011
Format:Taschenbuch
This morning the following review by book editor Vic Mickunas was published in the Dayton Daily News:
The shelves are loaded with new baseball books
Spring has sprung. There's another major league baseball season in full swing. This is a typical April; new baseball books are dropping like so many sinking line drives into the outfield.
Here are some recent titles that have been warming up my book bench:
Baseball is ... Defining the National Pastime edited by Paul Dickson (Dover, 247 pages, $9.95)
Before we take the field we must warm up properly. Paul Dickson is one of our foremost baseball scribes. This collection of quotations about America's Pastime will get you into that baseball state of mind for those innings to come. Here are a few sample quotes:
"Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base." -- Jimmy Breslin
"Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game -- it, and high taxes." -- Will Rogers
"Baseball is the only thing besides the paper clip that hasn't changed." -- Bill Veeck
The shelves are loaded with new baseball books
Spring has sprung. There's another major league baseball season in full swing. This is a typical April; new baseball books are dropping like so many sinking line drives into the outfield.
Here are some recent titles that have been warming up my book bench:
Baseball is ... Defining the National Pastime edited by Paul Dickson (Dover, 247 pages, $9.95)
Before we take the field we must warm up properly. Paul Dickson is one of our foremost baseball scribes. This collection of quotations about America's Pastime will get you into that baseball state of mind for those innings to come. Here are a few sample quotes:
"Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base." -- Jimmy Breslin
"Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game -- it, and high taxes." -- Will Rogers
"Baseball is the only thing besides the paper clip that hasn't changed." -- Bill Veeck
Five Stars - No Doubt About It!
1. Juni 2011
Format:Taschenbuch|Von Amazon bestätigter Kauf
Beauty is truth, truth beauty, and happiness is a warm gun.
That's simple. That's easy.
Here's the tough one - what is baseball?
Paul Dickson has taken a very clever idea for a book (addressing that question by assembling a wealth of marvelous quotes, ranging from witty and light to deep and often thought provoking), and he's come though again with yet another baseball book in a long line of works he's written or otherwise assembled that examine the myriad aspects of the game in a fresh, fine and fun manner, giving the reader a major dose of enlightenment, along with considerable entertainment.
Recently, Mr. Dickson was awarded the 2011 Tony Salin Memorial Award by the Baseball Reliquary, a prestigious Southern California-based nonprofit dedicated to fostering an appreciation of American art and culture through the context of baseball history.
It's a true honor, given the high caliber of the prior recipients of the award, but it comes as no surprise that Mr. Dickson would receive the award because this book, along with the many Dickson baseball tomes that have preceded it (like the three editions of his Baseball Dictionary - the definitive treatise on baseball's enormous and wildly varied lexicon - and so many other publications) constitute a significant and stellar contribution to the literature of baseball.
In short, Mr. Dickson seems to have a bottomless reservoir of always new and always unique approaches to writing about the national pastime - a well-spring of creative motifs from which he has drawn so many times over the course of his career to create works that are as amazing as they are amusing, delightful from start to finish, and "Baseball is..." is that.
That's simple. That's easy.
Here's the tough one - what is baseball?
Paul Dickson has taken a very clever idea for a book (addressing that question by assembling a wealth of marvelous quotes, ranging from witty and light to deep and often thought provoking), and he's come though again with yet another baseball book in a long line of works he's written or otherwise assembled that examine the myriad aspects of the game in a fresh, fine and fun manner, giving the reader a major dose of enlightenment, along with considerable entertainment.
Recently, Mr. Dickson was awarded the 2011 Tony Salin Memorial Award by the Baseball Reliquary, a prestigious Southern California-based nonprofit dedicated to fostering an appreciation of American art and culture through the context of baseball history.
It's a true honor, given the high caliber of the prior recipients of the award, but it comes as no surprise that Mr. Dickson would receive the award because this book, along with the many Dickson baseball tomes that have preceded it (like the three editions of his Baseball Dictionary - the definitive treatise on baseball's enormous and wildly varied lexicon - and so many other publications) constitute a significant and stellar contribution to the literature of baseball.
In short, Mr. Dickson seems to have a bottomless reservoir of always new and always unique approaches to writing about the national pastime - a well-spring of creative motifs from which he has drawn so many times over the course of his career to create works that are as amazing as they are amusing, delightful from start to finish, and "Baseball is..." is that.
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