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My Life as a Fan: A Memoir
In My Life as a Fan , Wilfrid Sheed shares how he arrived in this country as an English kid worried about his house being bombed and his country being invaded.
Despite initial hesitatons when landing in the U.S., Sheed becomes a typical 10-year-old baseball nut and his personal Ellis Islands becomes the ballparks of the 1940s.
Despite initial hesitatons when landing in the U.S., Sheed becomes a typical 10-year-old baseball nut and his personal Ellis Islands becomes the ballparks of the 1940s.
- GenresBaseball
224 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1993
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About the author
Wilfrid Sheed
31 books19 followersSheed was born in London to Francis "Frank" Sheed and Mary "Maisie" Ward, prominent Roman Catholic publishers (Sheed & Ward) in the United Kingdom and the United States during the mid-20th century. Wilfrid Sheed spent his childhood in both England and the United States before attending Downside School and Lincoln College, Oxford where he earned BA (1954) and MA (1957) degrees.
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October 11, 2014
Engaging, but too many details about players, teams, and games, for my taste.
Notes:
6..Author's Note: This is a book of memories not facts, which means that while I'm convinced it happened exactly like this, I wouldn't advise using the book to settle bar bets. The Baseball Encyclopedia has its memories and I have mine, and if by ill chance we differ on some small point, I've had mine much too long and they're much to vivid to change them now.
7..Introduction. Excellent.
90..None of this morbid, Ingmar Bergman on a rainy day type of wisdom was anywhere in sight, though, when the Dodgers came to town to play the Phillies in a July 4th double-header, and I got to see my love objects in the flesh for the first time. .... July 4th is a perfect day for a ball game anyway, and an even better one for two (my blood runs cold, or refuses to run at all, at the thought of July 4th nigh games, an affliction introduced by the villainous Walter O'Malley, against whom this book is dedicated).
215..Joe E. Lewis, "If you lend a friend $10 and never see him again, it was worth it."
Notes:
6..Author's Note: This is a book of memories not facts, which means that while I'm convinced it happened exactly like this, I wouldn't advise using the book to settle bar bets. The Baseball Encyclopedia has its memories and I have mine, and if by ill chance we differ on some small point, I've had mine much too long and they're much to vivid to change them now.
7..Introduction. Excellent.
90..None of this morbid, Ingmar Bergman on a rainy day type of wisdom was anywhere in sight, though, when the Dodgers came to town to play the Phillies in a July 4th double-header, and I got to see my love objects in the flesh for the first time. .... July 4th is a perfect day for a ball game anyway, and an even better one for two (my blood runs cold, or refuses to run at all, at the thought of July 4th nigh games, an affliction introduced by the villainous Walter O'Malley, against whom this book is dedicated).
215..Joe E. Lewis, "If you lend a friend $10 and never see him again, it was worth it."
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