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Article: HEMPHILL CAPTURES HEART OF MINOR LEAGUE BALL.(SPORTS)(Review)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- June 2, 1996
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Byline: TIM WARREN
The Heart of the Game: The Education of a Minor League Ballplayer
By Paul Hemphill
Simon & Schuster. 284 pp.
Paul Hemphill tells us in his foreword that he wrote ``The Heart of the Game'' out of love for baseball, but thankfully, this isn't one of those pretentious tomes in which the author finds true meaning at the altar of the Lords of Baseball.
Rather, Hemphill approaches the sport from the inside out, eschewing rhapsodies on the poetry of baseball in favor of examining in close detail the maturation of a minor league player.
You won't find words such as ``pastoral'' in ``The Heart of the Game,'' but you will find out the seven ...