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Reddit mentions of A Great and Glorious Game
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| Color | Other |
| Height | 7.3 Inches |
| Length | 5.22 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Release date | January 1998 |
| Weight | 0.3 Pounds |
| Width | 0.62 Inches |
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>Giamatti spent three years as president of the National League and five months as commissioner before dying of a heart attack on September 1, 1989, at the age of 51. His untimely death made the theme of mortality in “Green Fields” especially poignant.
Goddamnit, he died too young :( What a beautiful piece of writing, thank you for posting, OP. I will have to check out the rest included in his essay collection.
You're a Red Sox fan? So is this man.
This is his book. It is beautiful.
I read The Catcher Was a Spy probably 20 years ago. It's mildly interesting in recollecting Moe Berg's life, but it reads more like someone's idea of what their life may have been like, than what it actually was.
If you want some interesting baseball books, I'd suggest October 1964 by David Halberstam, The Boys of Summer (classic) by Roger Kahn, or Great and Glorious Game by Bart Giamatti. The last one includes an essay entitled "The Green Fields of the Mind" that is probably one of the most beautiful pieces written about the game.