Baseball's Best Short Stories

This expanded edition features the best-loved short stories from the 20th century as well as new tales from some of the 21st centurys most iconic names in fiction. No other sport has inspired as many great writers as baseball has, and this exceptional anthology brings together 34 short stories about the nations favorite pastime. The stories span several decades and are written by some of Americas favorite writers, including Zane Grey, James Thurber, Robert Penn Warren, T. Coraghessan Boyle, and Michael Chabon, among others. Many of the stories are about the game itself, while others use baseball as a backdrop for timeless themes, such as morality, greed, and love. Eight new stories have been added to this expanded edition and include Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff, in which baseball is the surprising last memory of a dying man; George Plimptons The Curious Case of Sidd Finch, a fictional story about a baseball player who throws a 150-mph fastball that was a notorious April Fools Day hoax in Sports Illustrated; and Leslie Pietrzyks What We All Want, about a pitchers wifes concern for her aging husband. This collection is for all baseball loverslong after the season is over.