Man on Spikes
Will be published approx. on 30. April 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-8093-2190-2 (ISBN)
Description
Originally published in 1955, this is a novel about a baseball player who struggles through 16 years of personal crises and professional ordeals before finally appearing in a major-league game. In the preface to this edition, Asinof reveals the identity of the friend upon which the novel is based.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Carbondale
United States
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 217 mm
Width: 143 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
404 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8093-2190-2 (9780809321902)
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Persons
Eliot Asinof is renowned among baseball writers for Eight Men Out, his brilliant reconstruction of the infamous Black Sox scandal in the 1919 World Series. The author of five novels and eight works of nonfiction, he served an apprenticeship in the minor leagues as a prelude to his many works about baseball.