THE ARMCHAIR BOOK OF BASEBALL

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons - Scribners, 1985. Book. Illus. by James Stevenson;. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xii) 388 pp. Please note, this is a very heavy book and, depending where in the world you are, the shipping might be higher than normal. Quarter-bound in green cloth on beige boards; decorated in gilt on the spine; headband; green upper edge. Some wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a few short tears around the edges; price clipped; no interior markings. Illustrated with drawings by James Stevenson. There are far too many writers and articles here to list them all but some of the highlights are: Foreword by Peter V. Ueberroth; The Web of the Game by Roger Angell; Who's on First? - Anonlymous; The Grip by Jim Bouton; The Extinction of the .400 Hitter by Stephen Jay Gould; Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa by W. P. Kinsella; A Busher's Letters Home by Ring Lardner; Lines Composed in Exaltation Over the North Atlantic by James Michener; La Vie en Rose by Pete Rose; Josh - The Black Babe Ruth, or was Ruth the White Josh Gibson by Robert Peterson; My Baseball Years by Philip Roth; Pick-up Game by John Sayles; No Jury Would Convict by Irwin Shaw; Howard Ehmke by Red Smith; The Silent Season of a Hero - Joe DiMaggion by Gay Talese; Franks Chance's Diamond - Why Ring Lardner Soured on Baseball by Jonathan Yardley; and many, many more..