Baseball's Most Valuable Writer, Thomas Boswell of The Washington Post, hits a grand slam with this classic collection of heartfelt and humorous pieces on our national's pastime. The lineup includes -Heroes, - -Managing (Life), - and -The Flame of Fame, - which capture some of the outstanding players in baseball, from DiMaggio, Weaver, and Ozzie Smith to Rose, Sutton, and Gooden; -Five Octobers, - which shows that baseball is a dynamic game in which any team can rise to the top; and the hilarious and memorable -99 Reasons Why Baseball Is Better Than Football- (Reason 20: Eighty...

"Anyone interested in baseball can not fail to be captivated by Boswell's penetrating look at the game, and by his graceful prose."--"USA Today

Thomas Boswell, longtime "Washington Post syndicated sports columnist, has been called "an astute observer of the human condition disguised as a first-rate sportswriter." Boswell will be featured as a major on-screen spokesman in Ken Burns's PBS series on baseball, which airs in fail '94 and will attract millions of viewers. His three previous baseball collections have won wide praise across the country and sold close to two hundred thousand...