Imagining Baseball: America's Pastime and Popular Culture

..". McGimpsey displays erudition, clever insights and a knack for thewickedly funny wisecrack (several of which are aimed at his beloved, andbeleaguered, Montreal Expos). Literary baseball may be a drastically over-analyzedsubject, but, like an overachieving rookie, McGrimpsey produces a far better book onit than one would have ever thought possible." -- Louis Jacobson, WashingtonPost"This is the most important critical book on baseballliterature in many years." -- Murray Sperber, author of Onward toVictoryFrom Field of Dreams to The Natural, from baseball cardsto highbrow fiction, this book explores the place of baseball in American popularculture.