Light at the edge of the field /

"Light at the Edge of the Field keeps readers wanting more as a pitcher's girlfriend confronts her lover, not about his obsession with baseball but about their relationship and future together. After watching a traveling African American baseball team, a father is forced to inform his inno...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Meissner, William, 1948- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Nacogdoches, Texas : Stephen F. Austin State University Press, [2021]
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE FIRST PITCH
  • What's Next: The Baseball Lovers
  • pt. TWO RUNNING THROUGH DEEP GRASS
  • News, Weather, and Sports
  • EI Relampago
  • The Keys
  • Wing Tip Shoes
  • In the Middle of a Steal
  • Something About the Evenly Cut Lawn
  • Swimming the Quarry
  • A Day in the Life of a Groundskeeper
  • pt. THREE IN ANOTHER LEAGUE: CURVES, CHANGE-UPS, AND STOLEN BASES
  • The Romance of Certain Abandoned Baseball Fields
  • The Descending God
  • A Certain Smoothness and Roughness
  • Real Ballplayers Wear the Chapstick Their Wives Gave Them
  • The Unlikely Ones
  • Baseball Wife at the Start of the Season
  • The Rabbit in the Batting Cage
  • Zen Baseball: Why Ballplayers Always Look Toward the River
  • The Migration
  • pt. FOUR THE DIAMOND-SHAPED CIRCLE
  • Just One Magic Swing
  • The Whisper of Vintage Baseball Photos
  • End of the Season: Tough Luck Ballplayer in the Diamond Bluff Tavern
  • The Dreams of Batting Gloves
  • What's Missing: The Three Things, and Something Else
  • Circles: The Outfield Dancer