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Original Essays | September 23, 2009

Jonathan Lethem: IMG Stops: On Those Things My New Novel Forgot to Be About, Maybe

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For me, there's a weird, unfathomable gulf — I almost wrote gulp — between the completion of a novel and its publication. Some days this duration feels interminable, as though the book has... Continue »
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The Pitch That Killed

by Mike Sowell

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The story of Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians, a popular player struck in the head and killed in August 1920 by a pitch thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees. Mr. Sowell's book investigates the incident and probes deep into the backgrounds of the players involved and the events that led to baseball's only death at bat. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Splendidly researched and vivid as today...remarkable. --Roger Kahn

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The story about the only player ever killed at bat, popular Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians.
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ISBN:
9781566635516
Author:
Sowell, Mike
Publisher:
Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Location:
Chicago
Subject:
Baseball - History
Subject:
Baseball - General
Subject:
Baseball
Edition Number:
352
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series Volume:
#2
Publication Date:
March 2004
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
328
Dimensions:
825x550
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