Players, writers, and fans share their wisdom in this rich compilation of insights, witticisms, and anecdotes about America's national sport. The contributors include such greats as Henry Aaron (“The pitcher only had a ball, I had a bat”), Casey Stengel (“I been in the game a hundred years, but I see new ways to lose I never knew existed before”), and of course, the inimitable Yogi Berra (“It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays”). It's a great gift for baseball fans everywhere.
Louis Decimus Rubin Jr. was born into a Jewish family in Charleston, South Carolina, on November 19, 1923. He studied for two years at the College of Charleston, served in the Army during World War II (1939–1945), and earned a BA in history at the University of Richmond.
Louis D. Rubin is a writer, editor, publisher, educator, and literary critic, and perhaps the person most responsible for the emergence of southern literature as a field of scholarly inquiry. He served on the faculty of Hollins College (now Hollins University) in Roanoke, Virginia. He coedited Southern Renascence, an important compilation of southern studies; founded the journal Hollins Critic; established the Southern Literary Studies series at the Louisiana State University Press; cofounded the Southern Literary Journal; cofounded Algonquin Books, a literary press that showcases emerging southern writers; and promoted the early work of important southern writers, including Clyde Edgerton, John Barth, and Virginia writers Lee Smith and Annie Dillard.