- Fiction, Cincinnati Reds (Baseball team), Baseball players, Baseball teams
Contemporary reporter Sam Fowler, stuck in a dull job and a failing marriage, abruptly finds himself transported back to the summer of 1869. After a wrenching period of adjustment, he comes to feel rejuvenated by his involvement with the nation's first pro baseball players.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and resolved.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Darryl Brock
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 424
- Publisher
- Frog, Ltd., crown, Plume
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781583941874
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