Guys, Dolls, and Curveballs: Damon Runyon on Baseball

by Jim Reisler

Book Overview

Guys, Dolls, and Curveballs is a delightful collection of ballpark dispatches from one of the game's most unique chroniclers--Damon Runyon, the legendary reporter and creator of such mythic gangster icons as Nathan Detroit and the Lemon Drop Kid. Best known as the bard of Broadway for turning two-bit hustlers and deadbeat horseplayers of Jazz Age New York City into literary legend, Runyon was first and foremost a newspaperman. After arriving in New...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786715405
• ISBN13: 9780786715404
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"