Field of Screams

For people who have had it up to here with the endless nostalgia about The Summer Game on a Field of Dreams, here is a bracing antidote: baseball history with an attitude. From baseball's rough-and-tumble origins in the nineteenth century to today's spoiled megamillionaire players and corporate shark owners, Field of Screams provides an entertaining and blackly funny reality check. It is a crowded rogues' gallery of the cheats, misers, sadists, head cases, cheeseballs, chiselers, perverts, egomaniacs, beanballers, slobs, substance abusers, gamblers, game throwers, and violent criminals who have so enlivened the game. Not to mention the sullen, bloodthirsty fans.

Author: Richard Scheinin, Scheinin
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/01/1982
Pages: 404
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.52lbs
Size: 9.26h x 7.54w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780393311389

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/15/1994 pg. 1320
Library Journal 01/01/1994 pg. 82