Diamonds are a girl's best friend : women writers on baseball / edited by Elinor Nauen
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| Subjects: | Baseball--Literary collections American literature--Women authors |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Published: | Boston : Faber and Faber, 1994 |
| LC Classification: | P, PS |
| Table of Contents: | Introduction Baseball and Writing / Marianne Moore 3 First Game / Lesley Hazleton 6 from Sportsman's Paradise / Nancy Lemann 9 I've Never Written a Baseball Poem / Elisavietta Ritchie 19 Spring Training / Lynn Rigney Schott 20 The Idea of Florida during a Winter Thaw / Gail Mazur 22 Backyard / Rochelle Nameroff 24 from Deborah, Golda and Me / Letty Cottin Pogrebin 25 From Father, with Love / Doris Kearns Goodwin 26 Coming to the Plate / Molly O'Neill 29 from Squeeze Play / Jane Leavy 35 from In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson / Bette Bao Lord 41 Willie Horton / Rebecca Stowe 46 Memoir / Ann Hood 50 from An American Childhood / Annie Dillard 53 from Raising Demons / Shirley Jackson 56 How Hans Became an American / Elinor Nauen 66 Calling / Judy Katz-Levine 69 What Baseball Tells Us About Love / Linda Kittell 70 On Just Being a Fan / Mabel Hite 73 A Miracle Year / Jean Hastings Ardell 75 City Ball / Roberta Israeloff 79 Endless Odds / Judy Goldman 91 Summer Before College / Jeredith Merrin 94 Season Wish / Linda Mizejewski 96 Heroes / Ann Bauleke 98 Red Barber / Barbara Grizzuti Harrison 102 Fan Valentines / Lillian Morrison 121 Why I Love Baseball / Carol Tavris 122 No Particular Place to Go / Linda Gebroe 126 Why I Love It / Mary Leary 128 Most Valuable Player / Sarah Van Arsdale 130 from In Shelly's Leg / Sara Vogan 132 As Yet / Alice Notley 135 Hommage a George Brett / Victoria Gill 136 Poem for My Youth / Eloise Klein Healy 137 Bunt Ball / Viola Weinberg 138 Carlton Fisk Is My Ideal / Bernadette Mayer 140 Dodger Stadium / Eve Babitz 142 from The Sunlit Field / Lucy Kennedy 150 A Dream of Games / Josephine Jacobsen 158 Listening to Baseball in the Car / Gail Mazur 159 A Bush League Hero / Edna Ferber 161 The Lady Fan / Lulu Glaser 170 Dream Game / Alison Gordon 173 The Truth About Paradise / Oona Short 176 American Baseball / Eileen Myles 183 A Baseball Wimp / Anna Quindlen 186 The Markoe Plan for Overcoming Boredom at a Baseball Game / Merrill Markoe 188 Analysis of Baseball / May Swenson 195 Petticoats and the Press Box / Ina Eloise Young 197 On Trying to Watch Baseball / Mariah Burton Nelson 199 Uniform Comments / Susan McCarthy 202 Madame Southpaw / S. W. M. Humason 204 from All the Way Home / Ellen Cooney 216 A Night Game in Menomonie Park / Susan Firer 221 Double Play / Eloise Klein Healy 223 Mother Baseball / Vanalyne Green 224 Hometown Piece for Messrs. Alston and Reese / Marianne Moore 229 Jackie Robinson / Hilma Wolitzer 232 What Happened / Veronica Geng 235 One to Nothing / Carolyn Kizer 237 Baseball / Linda Pastan 239 Baseball / Gail Mazur 240 Deaf-Mutes at the Ballgame / Josephine Jacobsen 243 The Barbarians / Patricia Highsmith 244 Poor Is Poor, Broke Is Broke / Mary Leary 255 The Lefthander / Heather Henderson 259 Fly Ball / Carol Masters 262 Suicide / Judy Goldman 264 The Playoffs and Everything / Viola Weinberg 265 The Playoff Game / Holly Prado 267 The World Series Is About Writing Poems / Holly Prado 270 World Series / Ann Neelon 272 The Winter Game / Alison Gordon 274 Contributor Notes 283 Bibliography 289 Acknowledgments 291 |
| Additional Authors: | Nauen, Elinor |
| Notes: | LCCN: 93010897 ISBN: 0571198198 :$22.95 |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 295 p. ; 24 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 28065803 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 0571198198 |