A story with a heart of gold about love and the loss of innocence at the bottom of the most minor league in baseball--the Class D Alabama-Florida League in the 1950s, with a sour old maverick manager, a yearning teenage second baseman, and a black catcher masquerading as a Venezuelan. "A first-rate novel."--Newsweek. "So good, so true, so funny..."--New York Times Book Review.
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A story with a heart of gold about love and the loss of innocence at the bottom of the most minor league in baseball--the Class D Alabama-Florida League in the 1950s, with a sour old maverick manager, a yearning teenage second baseman, and a black catcher masquerading as a Venezuelan. "A first-rate novel."--Newsweek. "So good, so true, so funny..."--New York Times Book Review.
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Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. 0670437883. A Second Printing in Fine condition housed in a Nearly Fine dust-jacket that is slightly warped; 213 pages.
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Good in Fair jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall; Signed & Inscribed By Author Type: Book 131517 SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR! INCLUDES B/W PHOTOGRAPH OF AUTHOR. Clean text/ tight linen binding, book slightly cocked/ DJ has several tears at edges, some creases, scratches.
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Fine in fine jacket. First printing, hardcover. INSCRIBED and signed by Hemphill to "Rebecca" (Rebeccan Chase, noted Atlanta journalist as this book was sold out of her estate) on the front endpaper. Trace of edge wear to bottom boards, else a fine tight copy in a fine dust jacket which is now protected in an archival cover.
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Fine. 0670437883. First edition. Close to fine in near fine dust jacket. (Couple short edge tears & light spots of rubbing to jacket. ) Entertaining novel of minor league baseball. Made into a T. V. Movie.
