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100 1 $aOrodenker, Richard.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95101676
245 14 $aThe writers' game :$bbaseball writing in America /$cRichard Orodenker.
260 $aNew York :$bTwayne Publishers ;$aLondon :$bPrentice Hall International,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $axvii, 248 pages ;$c22 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aTwayne's United States authors series ;$v663
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Great Conversation --$g2.$tMatties and Rubes --$g3.$tThe National Myth --$g4.$tEarly Innings --$g5.$tRing Lardner's Diamond --$g6.$tInk by the Barrel --$g7.$tThe Heart of the Order --$g8.$tTheir Baseball --$g9.$tA Few Kind Words and a Road Map --$g10.$tThe Boys Who Went Away --$g11.$tThe Year of the Plague --$g12.$tThe Twilight Era.
520 $aRichard Orodenker's The Writers' Game is a one-of-a-kind guide to the writers and player-writers whose voices have formed this unique subgenre of American literature.
520 8 $aSurveying the vast body of nonfiction writing devoted to baseball and exploring the recurrent themes and myths that typify it, the book gives special attention to the familiar essay, the in-depth personal profile, and the memoir or autobiography, while never skirting seminal works of baseball lore, whether early sports guide, dime novel, or oral history. The result is a dozen thematically arranged chapters that inspect the works of scores of writers - including Christy Mathewson, Stephen Crane, Donald Hall, Jim Bouton, Roger Angell, and Annie Dillard - and provide a thoroughly entertaining compendium of the history and culture of baseball.
520 8 $aEnhancing the volume's usefulness are an introduction, notes and references, selected bibliography, and index.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004351
650 0 $aBaseball stories, American$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aSports stories, American$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aBaseball in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93008636
830 0 $aTwayne's United States authors series ;$vTUSAS 663.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83702482
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS169.B36$iO76 1996