Home Run

by George Plimpton (Editor)

The author of Paper Tiger presents a selection of outstanding essays and commentary on baseball's most exciting moments and includes contributions by John Updike, Roger Angell, Don DeLillo, Paul Gallico, Red Smith, Grantland Rice, and other notables on the events and athletes that have changed baseball history. Original. 35,000 first printing.

Genres: Baseball, Sports

278 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2001

About the author

George Ames Plimpton was an American journalist, writer, editor, actor, and gamesman. He is widely known for his sports writing and for helping to found The Paris Review.

He was the grandson of George A. Plimpton.

Reviews

[Josh Hitch · Rating 3 out of 5]

Enjoyed most of the non-fiction work in the book, but the fiction excerpts were horrible. The 45 page excerpt of Don DeLillo's Underworld about the '51 Bobby Thompson HR was about as exciting as watching paint dry. Basically, it's the best of baseball writing dealing with the home run. Though I don't know why Plimpton picked some of the stuff he did.

Can't really recommend it overall since there is a good bit of the book that is trash and uninteresting. Though there are several good pieces as well.

[Andy · Rating 5 out of 5]

beast

[Robert · Rating 4 out of 5]

Took me less than a day. Interesting short articles about baseball and the homerun.

[Daniel Suhajda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Since it took me almost three years to finish…some of the stories were really interesting. Some not so much.