Man on SpikesSelected 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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