The Warsaw Sparks: A Memoir

by Gary Gildner

Book Overview

In 1987 noted poet and author Gary Gildner went to Poland on a Fulbright scholarship to teach at the University of Warsaw. One January day, a Warsaw sportswriter came knocking on Gildner's classroom door with a problem and a request. The professional baseball team he had organized the year before could not win; would the professor--who he had heard was a baseball player--come help?
Told with gripping lyric simplicity, The Warsaw Sparks is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803217560
• ISBN13: 9780803217560
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"