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Collision at Home Plate
James Reston, Jr.
其他書名
The Lives of Pete Rose and Bart Giamatti
出版U of Nebraska Press, 1997-02-01
主題Biography & Autobiography / SportsSports & Recreation / Baseball / General
ISBN97808032896420803289642
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=znjlwbfZOTcC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"A collision indeed-an atomic explosion of sorts-as intelligence, grace, and arrogance (Giamatti) meet stupidity, sweat, and arrogance (Rose), with fallout that will affect the world of baseball for decades to come. . . . Told with guts and verve".-Kirkus Reviews. "Reston . . . does credit to the two most compelling figures baseball has produced in the past quarter-century".-New York Times Book Review. "[An] uncommonly intelligent book about two fascinating, uncommon (if flawed) men".-Chicago Tribune. "It touches on some of the great themes of literature-love, waste, regret".-George Will, New York Review of Books. "What sets Reston's book apart . . . is his threading together of the lives of the wayward ballplayer and the commissioner who cast him out".-Sports Illustrated. "Reston is a wonderful writer and the book is a joy to read".-Red Barber. "Epic Americana. Reston is steady, painstaking, and controlled as he pits the scholar against the slugger".-Toronto Star. "A riveting book".-San Francisco Chronicle. Collision at Home Plate is a dual biography of Pete Rose, an uncouth but great ballplayer who suffered disgrace and imprisonment, and Bart Giamatti, the baseball commissioner so deeply shaken and bruised by the Rose scandal that he died a week after it was made public. This is the definitive book on one of the most traumatic and tragic episodes in baseball history. James Reston Jr. is the author of The Lone Star: The Life of John Connally and Sherman's March and Vietnam.