Fathers Playing Catch with Sons, Paperback

In the pantheon of great sports literature, not a few poets have tried their hand at paying tribute to their love affair with the game -- Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, and William Carlos Williams among them. This elegant volume collects Donald Hall's prose about sports, concentrating on baseball but extending to basketball, football and Ping-Pong. The essays are a wonderful mixture of reminiscence and observation, of baseball and of fathers and sons, of how a game binds people together and bridges generations.

About the Author:

Best known as a poet, Donald Hall lives by freelance writing on his New Hampshire farm. In addition to his many books of poetry, he has published short stories, collections of essays, and children's books.