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Playing Right Field: A Jew Grows in Greenwich

by George Tabb

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"Playing Right Field" refers to an early experience of the author and his brother, Lloyd, who played Little League together; they were forced to share one team T-shirt because their father the multimillionaire was too cheap to buy one for each of them.

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One of a handful of Jews in the WASPish enclave of Greenwich, Connecticut, and undersized at that, George Tabb was routinely kicked around by the other kids — one blind, another one with one arm — as well as by his father. Playing Right Field refers to an early experience of the author and his brother, Lloyd, who played Little League together; they were forced to share one team T-shirt because their father the multimillionaire was too cheap to buy one for each of them. George and Lloyd chose right field because hardly any balls ever got hit out there and they thought it would be safe and provide them with lots of space. This book is a series of vivid remembrances — morality tales with an absurdist edge — that trace Tabb's growing sense of isolation and rebellion. Each is illustrated by noted underground cartoonist Fly.
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ISBN:
9781932360400
Introduction:
Fly
Author:
Strausbaugh, John
Introduction by:
Strausbaugh, John
Introduction:
Strausbaugh, John
Illustrator:
Fly
Author:
Strausbaugh, John
Author:
Tabb, George
Publisher:
Soft Skull Press
Subject:
Jews
Subject:
Music
Subject:
Connecticut
Subject:
Childhood Memoir
Subject:
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Composers & Musicians
Subject:
Personal Memoirs
Subject:
Composers & Musicians - General
Subject:
Rock musicians
Subject:
Composers & Musicians
Subject:
Biography-Composers and Musicians
Copyright:
2004
Edition Description:
Trade Paper
Publication Date:
20040531
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Language:
English
Illustrations:
YES
Pages:
220
Dimensions:
750x500
Age Level:
from 12
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One of a handful of Jews in the WASPish enclave of Greenwich, Connecticut, and undersized at that, George Tabb was routinely kicked around by the other kids — one blind, another one with one arm — as well as by his father. Playing Right Field refers to an early experience of the author and his brother, Lloyd, who played Little League together; they were forced to share one team T-shirt because their father the multimillionaire was too cheap to buy one for each of them. George and Lloyd chose right field because hardly any balls ever got hit out there and they thought it would be safe and provide them with lots of space. This book is a series of vivid remembrances — morality tales with an absurdist edge — that trace Tabb's growing sense of isolation and rebellion. Each is illustrated by noted underground cartoonist Fly.
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