| #3909604 in Books | 2004-12-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.98 x.34 x6.32l,.40 | File type: PDF | 131 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| He played the sportswriting game well|By Shalom Freedman|As a child one treat of mine was reading Grantland Rice's sport columns. One of the first poems I ever wrote was about him. I think I was about eight . It was modeled on his verse. "Among the tumult and the shouting , a joyous cry arose, it rose above all others, with their joys and their woes/ a man of strength and coura
Published in 1910, Base-Ball Ballads was Grantland Rice's first book of poems, and the only one that contained baseball verse exclusively. The book includes some of the best-known poems about baseball ever written, including "Casey's Revenge" (a sometimes-anthologized piece that redeems Ernest Thayer's unlucky slugger), "Mudville's Fate," and the original version of "Game Called" (later revised on the occasion of Babe Ruth's death). An immensely popular writer of ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Base-Ball Ballads: Grantland Rice (McFarland Historical Baseball Library) | Grantland Rice "Granny".Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
