Top of the Order: 25 Writers Pick Their Favorite Baseball Player of All Time

by Sean Manning

Book Overview

There have been many anthologies devoted to our national pastime's greatest players, but here, at last, is one dedicated to those, for reasons far more personal than stats-based, we call our favorites . In Top of the Order twenty-five of today's premier sports journalists, cultural critics, novelists, and humorists (as well as a couple of former major leaguers) deliver memorable, never-before-published odes to their favorite players, past or present...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306818558
• ISBN13: 9780306818554
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"