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Man on spikes

Eliot Asinof ; new foreword by Marvin Miller

(Writing baseball, . The Southern Illinois University Press Series)

Southern Illinois University Press, c1998

  • :cloth
  • :paper

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First published 1955 by McGraw-Hill Book Company

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

:paper ISBN 9780809321902

Description

Originally published in 1955, this is a novel about a baseball player who struggles through 16 years of personal crises and professional ordeals before finally appearing in a major-league game. In the preface to this edition, Asinof reveals the identity of the friend upon which the novel is based.
Volume

:cloth ISBN 9780809322008

Description

Selected as one of baseball literature's Golden Dozen by Roger Kahn, Man on Spikes is an uncompromisingly realistic novel about a baseball player who struggles through sixteen years of personal crises and professional ordeals before finally appearing in a major league game. In a preface to this new edition, Eliot Asinof reveals the longsuffering ballplayer and friend upon which the novel is based.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA35519624
  • ISBN
    • 0809322005
    • 0809321904
  • LCCN
    97043204
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Carbondale
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvii, 276 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
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