Gen F is an anthology of short stories for our times, an ensemble of comic tragedies and humiliations for those displaced by a reversal of fortune, the toxicity of failure, psychological downsizing, class disparity, vanished industries, outsourscing, mortgage collapse, bank bailouts and stimulus recovery for the wealthy.
The authors of Gen F are Andrew Berardini, Ronee Blakley, Betty Ann Brown, Matty Byloos, Luca Celada, Paul Chavez, Shana Nys Dambrot, Michael Delgado, Harry Dunn, Gordy Grundy, Doug Harvey, James Hayward, Rich Henrich, Sarah Hunter, Josh Herman, Tulsa Kinney, Victoria...

The incredible memoir from the man voted one of the "Best Umpires of All Time" by the Society of American Baseball Research--filled with more than three decades of fascinating baseball stories.

Doug Harvey was a California farm boy, a high school athlete who nevertheless knew that what he really wanted was to become an unsung hero--a major league umpire. Working his way through the minor leagues, earning three hundred dollars a month, he survived just about everything, even riots in stadiums in Puerto Rico. And while players and other umps hit the bars at night, Harvey memorized the rule...