Field of Screams: The Dark Underside of America's National Pastime - Tapa blanda

Scheinin, Richard

 
9780393311389: Field of Screams: The Dark Underside of America's National Pastime
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ISBN 10: 0393311384 ISBN 13: 9780393311389
Editorial: W. W. Norton & Company, 1982

Sinopsis

For those who have had it with the "Boys of Summer" playing "The Summer Game" on a "Field of Dreams," here is a blackly funny reality check--featuring a rogue's gallery of cheats, misers, sadists, racists, egomaniacs, substance abusers, gamblers, and criminals who have participated in America's favorite sport.

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Reseña del editor

For people who have had it up to here with the endless nostalgia about "The Summer Game" on a "Field of Dreams," here is a bracing antidote: baseball history with an attitude. From baseball's rough-and-tumble origins in the nineteenth century to today's spoiled megamillionaire players and corporate shark owners, Field of Screams provides an entertaining and blackly funny reality check. It is a crowded rogues' gallery of the cheats, misers, sadists, head cases, cheeseballs, chiselers, perverts, egomaniacs, beanballers, slobs, substance abusers, gamblers, game throwers, and violent criminals who have so enlivened the game. Not to mention the sullen, bloodthirsty fans.

Reseña del editor

Field of Screams is an anecdote-filled romp that unearths all the funny, bizarre, off-the-wall personalities and incidents that don t fit in the official baseball picture. From violent and vengeful Ty Cobb and skinflint owner Charles Comiskey to such specimens of contemporary manhood as Pete Rose, Jose Canseco, George Steinbrenner, Darryl Strawberry, and, yes, Vince Family Man Coleman, Field of Screams definitely highlights the men who will never ever be presented as role models again. Kevin Costner wept. Sorry, Kev."

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Editorial
W. W. Norton & Company
Año de publicación
1982
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0393311384
ISBN 13 
9780393311389
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Número de páginas
404
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