Rave Reviews for SQUEEZE PLAY. . .
"Jane Leavy's Squeeze Play is the best novel ever written about baseball … the funniest, raunchiest, and most compassionate baseball novel I've ever read….Sure to offend some people who cried during Field of Dreams - and that's good enough for me." -Entertainment Weekly
"Jane Leavy's terrific Squeeze Play will have you reeling with laughter." -Larry King
"Squeeze Play does for baseball what Semi-Tough did for football." -Washington Post Book World
"Raunchy…authentic…this tale by a former sportswriter for the Washington Post will delight readers willing to accept a healthy dose of vulgarity with their humor, especially those who know and love the rhythms and complexities of the national pastime." -Publishers Weekly
"There is a lot of foul locker-room language and bawdiness, which may trouble some readers, but this is a funny, tender, true-to-life story of baseball, journalism, and war between the sexes." -Library Journal
"There hasn't been a good baseball novel since Mark Harris's series of books about southpaw Henry Wiggin. Until this one... Squeeze Play will have you singing a rousing chorus of 'Take Me Out to the Locker Room.'" -People
"Leavy's hilarious debut is a strong early candidate for MVP of the…sports-novel season….As raunchy as stories by Dan Jenkins and Peter Gent, as authentic as exposes by Jim Bouton and Jim Brosnan, this tale … will delight." -Publishers Weekly
"Does baseball mythology proud... The overall effect is that of a surreal parody, with a baseball team and newsroom that Mel Brooks might have assembled, where nobody and no activity is life-size, and where sex is a metaphor for baseball: You gotta play hurt." -New York Times Book Review
Rave Reviews for SQUEEZE PLAY. . .
"Jane Leavy's Squeeze Play is the best novel ever written about baseball … the funniest, raunchiest, and most compassionate baseball novel I've ever read….Sure to offend some people who cried during Field of Dreams - and that's good enough for me." -Entertainment Weekly
"Jane Leavy's terrific Squeeze Play will have you reeling with laughter." -Larry King
"Squeeze Play does for baseball what Semi-Tough did for football." -Washington Post Book World
"Raunchy…authentic…this tale by a former sportswriter for the Washington Post will delight readers willing to accept a healthy dose of vulgarity with their humor, especially those who know and love the rhythms and complexities of the national pastime." -Publishers Weekly
"There is a lot of foul locker-room language and bawdiness, which may trouble some readers, but this is a funny, tender, true-to-life story of baseball, journalism, and war between the sexes." -Library Journal
"There hasn't been a good baseball novel since Mark Harris's series of books about southpaw Henry Wiggin. Until this one... Squeeze Play will have you singing a rousing chorus of 'Take Me Out to the Locker Room.'" -People
"Leavy's hilarious debut is a strong early candidate for MVP of the…sports-novel season….As raunchy as stories by Dan Jenkins and Peter Gent, as authentic as exposes by Jim Bouton and Jim Brosnan, this tale … will delight." -Publishers Weekly
"Does baseball mythology proud... The overall effect is that of a surreal parody, with a baseball team and newsroom that Mel Brooks might have assembled, where nobody and no activity is life-size, and where sex is a metaphor for baseball: You gotta play hurt." -New York Times Book Review
Squeeze Play
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780786132188 |
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| Publisher: | Blackstone Audio, Inc. |
| Publication date: | 11/09/2004 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |