Baseball and Men's Lives: The True Confessions of a Skinny-Marink

By Robert Mayer

In his look at the role baseball plays in the lives of American men, the author of The Dreams of Ada recounts his own role as shortstop and discusses Bobby Thompson's home run, the 1969 Mets, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385309260
• ISBN13: 9780385309264
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: Delta
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

A Loyal Fan's Baseball Memories

Truly readable memoir of a loyal baseball fan. While probably aimed at the male population, I am one female who really enjoyed reading Mayer's "True Confessions of a Skinny-Marink" (his mother's nickname for him). If you enjoy baseball, and especially if you often find your team is out of the running as the season draws to a close, then you should read this book.

Any red-blooded American Male Baseball fan will love it!

A thrilling overview of a man's life as a perpetually disappointed Dodger's fan. References to great baseball works like The Southpaw and Field of Dreams. If baseball is the "Thinking Man's Game", Baseball and Men's Lives is a "Thinking Man's Book." Highly recommended to anyone who has seen their team struggle, and come in second place one too many times -- and to any guy who once dreamed of the big time, but never crossed the fence!