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The Random House book of sports stories / selected by L.M. Schulman ; illustrated by Thomas B. Allen.
LIBRA Special PZ5 .R194 1990
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sports stories.
- Children's stories, American.
- Sports--Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
- Other Title:
- Book of sports stories.
- Sports stories.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [1990]
- Summary:
- Presents a collection of sports stories by such authors as Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, and John Updike.
- Contents:
- You could look it up / James Thurber
- Raymond's run / Toni Cade Bambara
- The phantom drive / William T. Tilden II
- My old man / Ernest Hemingway
- Ali the terrible Turk / Gerald Kersh
- Ransom / Jay McInerney
- Tennis / Roger Angell
- The champ / Pedro Juan Soto
- Hurry Kane / Ring Lardner
- The moves make the man / Bruce Brooks
- The Mexican / Jack London
- Prunepicker / James D. Houston
- Ebbets Field / Jay Neugeboren
- Man and daughter in the cold / John Updike
- The fifty-yard dash / William Saroyan
- The bear / William Faulkner.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0394828747
- 9780394828749
- 0394928741
- 9780394928746
- OCLC:
- 20264921
- Online:
- Publisher description
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