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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Jane Leavy , Anna FieldsPublisher: Blackstone Audiobooks,U.S. Imprint: Blackstone Audiobooks,U.S. Edition: Library Edition Dimensions: Width: 15.90cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 17.50cm Weight: 0.417kg ISBN: 9780786189809ISBN 10: 0786189800 Publication Date: 01 November 2003 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock  Table of ContentsReviewsSqueeze Play does for baseball what Semi-Tough did for football. -- Washington Post Book World Squeeze Play will have you singing a rousing chorus of 'Take Me Out to the Locker Room.' -- People A funny, tender, true-to-life story of baseball, journalism, and war between the sexes. -- Library Journal Does baseball mythology proud...The overall effect is that of a surreal parody, with a baseball team and newsroom that Mel Brooks might have assembled, where nobody and no activity is life-size, and where sex is a metaphor for baseball: You gotta play hurt. -- New York Times Book Review Raunchy...authentic...this tale by a former sportswriter for the Washington Post will delight readers willing to accept a healthy dose of vulgarity with their humor, especially those who know and love the rhythms and complexities of the national pastime. -- Publishers Weekly Anna Fields voices a sassy, plucky heroine full of moxie and good intentions. Fields is also...convincing with the cavalcade of oddballs, lowlifes, and boobs who occupy both locker room and the newsroom in Leavy's rollicking satire. -- AudioFile The best baseball novel ever written...the funniest, raunchiest, and most compassionate baseball novel I've ever read. -- Entertainment Weekly A funny, tender, true-to-life story of baseball, journalism, and war between the sexes. -- Library Journal Anna Fields voices a sassy, plucky heroine full of moxie and good intentions. Fields is also...convincing with the cavalcade of oddballs, lowlifes, and boobs who occupy both locker room and the newsroom in Leavy's rollicking satire. -- AudioFile Squeeze Play does for baseball what Semi-Tough did for football. -- Washington Post Book World Raunchy...authentic...this tale by a former sportswriter for the Washington Post will delight readers willing to accept a healthy dose of vulgarity with their humor, especially those who know and love the rhythms and complexities of the national pastime. -- Publishers Weekly Does baseball mythology proud...The overall effect is that of a surreal parody, with a baseball team and newsroom that Mel Brooks might have assembled, where nobody and no activity is life-size, and where sex is a metaphor for baseball: You gotta play hurt. -- New York Times Book Review Squeeze Play will have you singing a rousing chorus of 'Take Me Out to the Locker Room.' -- People The best baseball novel ever written...the funniest, raunchiest, and most compassionate baseball novel I've ever read. -- Entertainment Weekly Author InformationJane Leavy is an award-winning former sportswriter and feature writer for the Washington Post. She is the author of Sandy Koufax and the comic novel Squeeze Play, called the best novel ever written about baseball by Entertainment Weekly. Anna Fields (1965-2006), winner of more than a dozen Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award in 2004, was one of the most respected narrators in the industry. Trained at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, she was also a director, producer, and technician at her own studio, Cedar House Audio. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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