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Author: Kirk McKnight
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Edition: Updated Edition
Dimensions:
Width: 16.10cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 22.80cm
Weight: 0.649kg
ISBN: 9781538177013
ISBN 10: 1538177013
Pages: 364
Publication Date: 12 April 2023
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Players may come and go, but the connection for many baseball fans to their favorite team remains constant thanks to the voices that describe the games. Kirk McKnight does a wonderful job profiling the people whose passion for the game in their accounts, win or lose, maintains that love affair for fans.--Jack Corrigan, play-by-play broadcaster for the Colorado Rockies Baseball broadcasters usually have longer careers than those of the players whose games they call. It's that unique perspective that gives their recollections a compelling context.... [T]here is plenty of rich baseball lore here, and it comes straight from the mouths of those who have been there.-- Booklist McKnight, a sportswriter and blogger, nicely captures baseball's best moments, players, and places through the eyes of the folks whose job it is to paint pictures with their words--baseball announcers.... McKnight's choice to present each story in an announcer's unique voice makes [the chapters] lively and charming, and each chapter comes together in its own special way.... [A] testament not only to the baseball's TV generation, but also to its golden age.-- Publishers Weekly There are baseball books about ballparks, and ones about broadcasters. What author Kirk McKnight has done here is to fuse the two, getting broadcasters who know the parks well to describe them and the players and dramas that have enlivened all 30 current major-league stadiums, as well as some from the past.-- The Christian Science Monitor
Baseball broadcasters usually have longer careers than those of the players whose games they call. It's that unique perspective that gives their recollections a compelling context.... [T]here is plenty of rich baseball lore here, and it comes straight from the mouths of those who have been there.-- Booklist McKnight, a sportswriter and blogger, nicely captures baseball's best moments, players, and places through the eyes of the folks whose job it is to paint pictures with their words--baseball announcers.... McKnight's choice to present each story in an announcer's unique voice makes [the chapters] lively and charming, and each chapter comes together in its own special way.... [A] testament not only to the baseball's TV generation, but also to its golden age.-- Publishers Weekly There are baseball books about ballparks, and ones about broadcasters. What author Kirk McKnight has done here is to fuse the two, getting broadcasters who know the parks well to describe them and the players and dramas that have enlivened all 30 current major-league stadiums, as well as some from the past.-- The Christian Science Monitor
Author Information
Kirk McKnight is an American author specializing in interview-based sports books ranging from the diamonds of baseball to the Zamboni-swept ice of hockey. McKnight’s other books include The Voices of Hockey: Broadcasters Reflect on The Fastest Game on Earth and Batting Clean: Why Dale Murphy Belongs in Baseball’s Hall of Fame. McKnight currently serves as the Staff Writer for The Wickenburg Sun, a weekly Arizona newspaper. McKnight resides in Wickenburg, Arizona.
