{"product_id":"base-ball-ballads-grantland-rice-9780786420384","title":"Base-Ball Ballads","description":"\u003cp\u003e Published in 1910, \u003ci\u003eBase-Ball Ballads\u003c\/i\u003e was Grantland Rice's first book of poems, and the only one that contained baseball verse exclusively. The book includes some of the best-known poems about baseball ever written, including \"Casey's Revenge\" (a sometimes-anthologized piece that redeems Ernest Thayer's unlucky slugger), \"Mudville's Fate,\" and the original version of \"Game Called\" (later revised on the occasion of Babe Ruth's death).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e An immensely popular writer of sports columns and essays, Rice was also well regarded for his humorous and sometimes touching verse. It is as the author of a couplet, in fact, that Rice may be best remembered: \"For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name \/ He writes--not that you won or lost--but how you played the Game.\" These lines, so strongly associated with baseball--though in fact they come from a poem about football--find their earliest expression in \u003ci\u003eBase-Ball Ballads\u003c\/i\u003e, where three poems (\"Play Ball,\" \"Game Called,\" and \"The Test\") provide different wordings of the same idea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Grantland Rice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0786420383\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780786420384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/13\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 131\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.98h x 6.32w x 0.34d","brand":"Grantland Rice","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096717500671,"sku":"9780786420384","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/base-ball-ballads-grantland-rice-9780786420384","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}