Man on Spikes

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SIU Press, 1998 - Fiction - 276 pages

Selected as one of baseball literature's Golden Dozen by Roger Kahn, Man on Spikes is an uncompromisingly realistic novel about a baseball player who struggles through sixteen years of personal crises and professional ordeals before finally appearing in a major league game. In a preface to this new edition, Eliot Asinof reveals the longsuffering ballplayer and friend upon which the novel is based.

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Contents

The Scout
1
The Father
12
The Manager
38
The Old Ballplayer
55
The Clown
87
The Sergeant
121
The Reporter
131
The Negro
154
The Sister
175
The Commissioner
188
The Wife
208
The Junior Executive
238
The Mother
245
The Rookie
252
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About the author (1998)

Writer Eliot Asinof was born in Manhattan on July 13, 1919. After graduating from Swarthmore but before joining the Army during World War II, he played minor league baseball for the Philadelphia Phillies' organization. His best-known work was Eight Men Out, which is about the 1919 Black Sox scandal and became a movie in 1988. He wrote over a dozen books during his lifetime including Man on Spikes, Seven Days to Sunday, and Final Judgment. He also wrote for television and the movies, but his published credits were limited, most likely because he was blacklisted in the 1950's. He died due to complications of pneumonia on June 10, 2008.

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