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Mike Vacarro
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Richard Grossinger is an anthropologist and publisher who has authored or edited over twenty books, including five anthologies of baseball literature. Grossinger and Lisa Conrad co-edited Baseball I Gave You the Best Years of My Life, the first anthology of its kind, and one that includes work from contributors as diverse as Don Hall, Jack Kerouac, and Jack Spicer. Baseball Diamonds and Into the Temple of Baseball followed, both edited by Grossinger and Kevin Kerrane. For over thirty years, Grossinger and his wife, Lindy Hough, have run North Atlantic Books.
Mike Vaccaro has been the lead sports columnist at the New York... Read More
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Ethnography, Myth, and Subtext
Written by Richard Grossinger
Foreword by Mike Vacarro
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $16.95
No baseball team has captured America’s imagination like the Mets. Alternately the “Lovable Losers” and the “Miracle Mets,” New York’s other team offers fascinating fodder for writer Richard Grossinger in this thoughtful collection. The New York Mets is a series of probing essays on the best and most interesting years of... Read more >







