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Article: RECOMMENDED READING
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- June 4, 1989
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Bookworm on the Bench
HERE ARE three titles to take to the ball park: Fungoes, Floaters
and Fork Balls, by Patrick Ercolano (available in paperback from
Prentice-Hall) is for everyone who's wondered what the radio
announcer is talking about when he calls a fly ball a can of corn, or
who's been lost when the guy sitting in front talks about Chicago
slides, atom balls and Chinese home runs. With this baseball
dictionary, you can indeed "look it up."
The Best of Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine, edited by
Mike Shannon (Pocket Books paperback), is the perfect book for rain
delays when it's hard to enjoy the texture and ambience of the ball
park. Instead you can read about an alien who ...