Something to Write Home About: Great Baseball Memories in Letters to a Fan

By Hannah Lee Davis

Hit songwriter Swirsky compiled letters from baseball players who reflected on their lives and turned them into the books "Baseball Letters" and "Every Pitcher Tells a Story." In the tradition of these two bestsellers comes his most comprehensive book in his unique trilogy, filled with reminiscences of baseball from everyone from President George W. Bush to Paul McCartney.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0609608940
• ISBN13: 9780609608944
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Crown
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.7" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Something to Treasure

This book is truly great in the fact that even after you've read the letters in it, months later, you remember what some people said--and those things were so inspiring: peter tork of the monkees talking about how 'participating' in an event is, in itself, such a great thing to do. Or, Martin Luther's King's photographer, Flip Schulke, remembering what a great dad Dr. King was...i never thought of dr. king as a father, only...

If you find it, buy it.

Not the typical book--not even just a 'baseball' book. Needs to be seen to be appreciated. Every page is a visual and emotional feast. From pinch hitter Gates Brown writing (the book is made up of all the actual handwritten letters Mr. Swirsky received from these people) about the day he was told to pinch hit an inning before he normally was asked too. He stuffs his half-eaten hot dog in his jersey and then, against his own...

As a Middle School Teacher,

father of three, husband of one and son of two (all big baseball fans,like myself), I appreciate Mr. Swirsky's new book on so many levels. I loved his first two books, "Baseball Letters" and "Every Pitcher Tells A Story" and brought them in to my class one day and we preceeded to 'act out' many of the letterson our small school stage.The stories came alive as each student read a different letter. I then thought to myself:...

Something to Enjoy

Reading "Something to Write Home About" made me recall something the photographer Diane Arbus said about her own work: that if she did not photograph certain things, no one would see them. By that she meant not that her subjects--people--were fleeting; rather, that she could see something in people or coax something from them that others could not. Similarly, I am convinced that if Seth Swirsky did not to get people to tell...

If you LOOOOOOOVE baseball, you must own this book

Anyone who takes their knowledge of baseball seriously must own this book. It's not just the things you'd learn through the letters written by an incredible array of people. it's the 'life moments' in the book that give it its 3-dimensionality.An absolute MUST gift.