Field of Screams

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Scheinin, R. Scheinin, Richard Scheinin
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.1982
• EAN: 9780393311389
• ISBN: 978-0-393-31138-9
• No. of pages: 404
• Dimensions: 191 mm x 235 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 751 g
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Ball sport; Non-fiction book