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Fathers Playing Catch with Sons (Fathers Playing Catch with Sons PR)

Fathers Playing Catch with Sons (Fathers Playing Catch with Sons PR)

by David Hall (Author)

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    Paperback 1985

    $16.99
Synopsis

In the pantheon of great sports literature, not a few poets have tried their hand at paying tribute to their love affair with the game -- Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams among them. This elegant volume collects Donald Hall's prose about sports, concentrating on baseball but extending to basketball, football and Ping-Pong. The essays are a wonderful mixture of reminiscence and observation, of baseball and of fathers and sons, of how a game binds people together and bridges generations.

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20+ in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 208
 Publisher: North Point Press
Published: Sep 1985
ISBN 10: 0865471681
ISBN 13: 9780865471689

Media Reviews
There will always be golden boys playing in games that have diamonds in them, and those boys will always get old, and life will change, but there's something gently beautiful in that process. Baseball is one metaphor for the changing of seasons, and Hall--as poet and seer here--raises Sport to Art. -- Los Angeles Times

Nobody who like to . . . 'enter the intense, artificial, pastoral universe of the game' will fail to be charmed by Hall's musings. -- Newsweek

There will always be golden boys playing in games that have diamonds in them, and those boys will always get old, and life will change, but there's something gently beautiful in that process. Baseball is one metaphor for the changing of seasons, and Hall--as poet and seer here--raises Sport to Art. Los Angeles Times

Nobody who like to . . . 'enter the intense, artificial, pastoral universe of the game' will fail to be charmed by Hall's musings. Newsweek


There will always be golden boys playing in games that have diamonds in them, and those boys will always get old, and life will change, but there's something gently beautiful in that process. Baseball is one metaphor for the changing of seasons, and Hall--as poet and seer here--raises Sport to Art. --Los Angeles Times

Nobody who like to . . . 'enter the intense, artificial, pastoral universe of the game' will fail to be charmed by Hall's musings. --Newsweek

Author Bio

Best known as a poet, Donald Hall lives by freelance writing on his New Hampshire farm. In addition to his many books of poetry, he has published short stories, collections of essays, and children's books.