Base-Ball Ballads
Grantland Rice
Will be published approx. on 13. January 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
143 pages
978-0-7864-2038-4 (ISBN)
Description
Published in 1910, Base-Ball Ballads was Grantland Rice's first book of poems, and the only one that contained baseball verse exclusively. The book includes some of the best-known poems about baseball ever written, including "Casey's Revenge" (a sometimes-anthologized piece that redeems Ernest Thayer's unlucky slugger), "Mudville's Fate," and the original version of "Game Called" (later revised on the occasion of Babe Ruth's death).
An immensely popular writer of sports columns and essays, Rice was also well regarded for his humorous and sometimes touching verse. It is as the author of a couplet, in fact, that Rice may be best remembered: "For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name / He writes--not that you won or lost--but how you played the Game." These lines, so strongly associated with baseball--though in fact they come from a poem about football--find their earliest expression in Base-Ball Ballads, where three poems ("Play Ball," "Game Called," and "The Test") provide different wordings of the same idea.
An immensely popular writer of sports columns and essays, Rice was also well regarded for his humorous and sometimes touching verse. It is as the author of a couplet, in fact, that Rice may be best remembered: "For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name / He writes--not that you won or lost--but how you played the Game." These lines, so strongly associated with baseball--though in fact they come from a poem about football--find their earliest expression in Base-Ball Ballads, where three poems ("Play Ball," "Game Called," and "The Test") provide different wordings of the same idea.
Reviews / Votes
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Jefferson, NC
United States
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
photos, index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
181 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7864-2038-4 (9780786420384)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Grantland Rice was considered the pre-eminent sportwriting stylist of his day and was the sports editor for the Nashville Daily News/Tennessean, the Atlanta Journal, the New York Herald and the New York Sun. He died in 1954.
Content
Table Of Contents
Editors' Note
Play Ball
When the Bug is on the Bawl
Casey's Revenge
The Bug's View-Point
The Courtship of a Son of Swat
The Bush Leaguer's Dream
Springtime in the History Room
The Hold-Out League
The Song of the Base Hit
On the Road to Rooters' Row
"Till the Last Man is Out"
The Bushers
The Climax of Fan Joy
Songs of Swat-"You Uster Bat .300"
The Test
The Laugh on Nero
Curfewed
The Fan and His Way
Over the Plate
Knocking Slang
The Real Springtime
The Raven Up-To-Date
A Day in the Bleachers
A Warning
Out on The Lines
On Memory's Wall
The Game
Mudville's Fate
A Toast Worth While
The Champs of The Alley League
The Man Who Played with Anson on The Old Chicago Team
The Record
"The Major Leaguer's Daughter;" Or, "The Turning of the Tide"
Pen Snapshot of The British Fan
On the Coaching Line
The Goods
The Winter League Wonder
A Tip to the Fan Flock
As the Game "Breaks"
The Grand Old Winter League
The Slide of Paul Revere
The Annual Return
In the Good Old Winter Time
After the Game
On Rooters' Row
The Love Sonnets of a Son of Swat
At the End of the Game
The Mogul's Dream
Hard-Luck Adam
Denton (Cy) Young
The Ump's Midwinter Dream
A Real Job for Teddy
The Shock
When "Wifey" Reads Dope
A Hard-Luck Yarn
A Fan's Diary
Game Called
Index Of Titles And First Lines
Editors' Note
Play Ball
When the Bug is on the Bawl
Casey's Revenge
The Bug's View-Point
The Courtship of a Son of Swat
The Bush Leaguer's Dream
Springtime in the History Room
The Hold-Out League
The Song of the Base Hit
On the Road to Rooters' Row
"Till the Last Man is Out"
The Bushers
The Climax of Fan Joy
Songs of Swat-"You Uster Bat .300"
The Test
The Laugh on Nero
Curfewed
The Fan and His Way
Over the Plate
Knocking Slang
The Real Springtime
The Raven Up-To-Date
A Day in the Bleachers
A Warning
Out on The Lines
On Memory's Wall
The Game
Mudville's Fate
A Toast Worth While
The Champs of The Alley League
The Man Who Played with Anson on The Old Chicago Team
The Record
"The Major Leaguer's Daughter;" Or, "The Turning of the Tide"
Pen Snapshot of The British Fan
On the Coaching Line
The Goods
The Winter League Wonder
A Tip to the Fan Flock
As the Game "Breaks"
The Grand Old Winter League
The Slide of Paul Revere
The Annual Return
In the Good Old Winter Time
After the Game
On Rooters' Row
The Love Sonnets of a Son of Swat
At the End of the Game
The Mogul's Dream
Hard-Luck Adam
Denton (Cy) Young
The Ump's Midwinter Dream
A Real Job for Teddy
The Shock
When "Wifey" Reads Dope
A Hard-Luck Yarn
A Fan's Diary
Game Called
Index Of Titles And First Lines