18 books
—
11 voters
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players each who take turns batting and fielding. It is one of the most widely played sports in the world.
Related Genres
![David James Duncan](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1238172599i/11700._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“
Sometimes a strikeout means that the slugger’s girlfriend just ran off with the UPS driver. Sometimes a muffed ground ball means that the shortstop’s baby daughter has a pain in her head that won’t go away. And handicapping is for amateur golfers, not ballplayers. Pitchers don’t ease off on the cleanup hitter because of the lumps just discovered in his wife’s breast. Baseball is not life. It is a fiction, a metaphor. And a ballplayer is a man who agrees to uphold that metaphor as though lives we
...more
”
―
―
“
They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.
...more
”
―
―
![AA Literary League](https://cdn.statically.io/img/images.gr-assets.com/groups/1463421672p2/189646.jpg)
68 members,
last active 6 years ago
I miss being part of a book club, so I figured why not try and start one of my own here? My tast…more
6 members,
last active 11 years ago