Field of Screams

For people who have had it up to here with the endless nostalgia about The Summer Game on a Field of Dreams, here is a bracing antidote: baseball history with an attitude. From baseball's rough-and-tumble origins in the nineteenth century to today's spoiled megamillionaire players and corporate shark owners, Field of Screams provides an entertaining and blackly funny reality check. It is a crowded rogues' gallery of the cheats, misers, sadists, head cases, cheeseballs, chiselers, perverts, egomaniacs, beanballers, slobs, substance abusers, gamblers, game throwers, and violent criminals who have so enlivened the game. Not to mention the sullen, bloodthirsty fans.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/01/1982
ISBN: 9780393311389
Pages: 404
Weight: 1.52lbs
Size: 9.26h x 7.54w x 0.85d

Review Citations: Booklist 03/15/1994 pg. 1320
Library Journal 01/01/1994 pg. 82