{"product_id":"baseball-as-metaphysics-marvin-cohen-9780692967515","title":"Baseball as Metaphysics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Cohen is a superfan, and he has written an intellectual manual for his co-religionists. They know who they are and they will cherish this manual. But anyone who has spent a soft, green afternoon, his shirt open at the throat to the sun, the whistles and chatter of the infield drifting up to the edge of his mind, watching, absorbing, taking in a baseball game, will cherish it.\"\u003cbr\u003e -- From the introduction by Jim Bouton, former Major League pitcher and author of the 1970 controversial bestseller \u003cem\u003eBall Four\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Originally published in 1974 as \u003cem\u003eBaseball the Beautiful: Decoding the Diamond\u003c\/em\u003e, this new paperback edition has been completely reformatted and contains the full text of the original version. According to the bio that Marvin Cohen, now 86, wrote for his website, the original publisher took the liberty of changing the book's now restored title \"for commercial feasibility and to bring in the lumbering lowbrow audience.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This new edition also contains a later essay that did not appear in the original, and the author has also written a new foreword.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marvin Cohen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0692967516\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780692967515\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tough Poets Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.23d","brand":"Marvin Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988221493503,"sku":"9780692967515","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9b28c556-7631-4003-b6c9-941b84cb2a39.jpg?v=1683293298","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/baseball-as-metaphysics-marvin-cohen-9780692967515","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}