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Fifth Season : Tales of My Life in Baseball
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"If you were much of a boy growing up in the Maspeth section of Queens in the late 1930s and 1940s, you had the baseball fever. It seemed contagious, but it struck mostly from within. . . . Often, in later years, when I was writing a long series of books on the game, some well-intended philistine would ask to have explained to him the fascination with baseball. I offered my stock answer: 'If you have to ask the question, you'll never understand the answer.'" With this small confession Donald Honig begins his charming memoir of a life devoted to the charms of baseball, including the many great figures of the game he has known in the past half-century.
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- ISBN-13: 9781566638104
- ISBN-10: 1566638100
- Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
- Publish Date: February 2009
- Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.32 x 1.06 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.16 pounds
- Page Count: 296
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