Books
August, 2001
Oh, for the long ball. From Frank Baker to Mark McGwire, the home run has been the seminal play in American sports. Home Run (Harvest) is an anthology dedicated to the act of hitting a baseball over a wall. Editor George Plimpton covers the literary bases with Don DeLillo and Gregory Corso, and tosses in surprises about Sadaharu Oh and Josh Gibson. But the purest moments here come from the incomparable Red Smith, who writes about Bobby Thomson's and Reggie Jackson's fabled homers.Literary Loose...
