The Fifth Season: Tales of My Life in Baseball (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781566638104)

"If you were much of a boy growing up in the Maspeth section of Queens in the late 1930s and 1940s, you had the baseball fever. It seemed contagious, but it struck mostly from within. . . . Often, in later years, when I was writing a long series of books on the game, some well-intended philistine would ask to have explained to him the fascination with baseball. I offered my stock answer: 'If you have to ask the question, you'll never understand the answer.'" With this small confession Donald Honig begins his charming memoir of a life devoted to the charms of baseball, including the many great figures of the game he has known in the past half-century.

Author: Donald Honing
ISBN-10: 1566638100
ISBN-13: 9781566638104
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Language: English
Published: 02/16/2009
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.32w x 1.06d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2009 pg. 23
Booklist 02/15/2009 pg. 16
Library Journal 02/15/2009 pg. 106
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2009 pg. 80