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Man on Spikes

Man on Spikes( )
Author: Asinof, Eliot
Foreword by: Miller, Marvin
ISBN:978-0-8093-2190-2
Publication Date:Apr 1998
Publisher:Southern Illinois University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $33.00
Book Description:

Originally published in 1955, this is a novel about a baseball player who struggles through 16 years of personal crises and professional ordeals before finally appearing in a major-league game. In the preface to this edition, Asinof reveals the identity of the friend upon which the novel is based.

Book Details
Pages:298
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Sports
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13.97 x 21.59 x 2.286 cm
Book Weight:0.055 Kilograms
Author Biography
Asinof, Eliot (Author)
Writer Eliot Asinof was born in Manhattan on July 13, 1919. After graduating from Swarthmore but before joining the Army during World War II, he played minor league baseball for the Philadelphia Phillies' organization. His best-known work was Eight Men Out, which is about the 1919 Black Sox scandal and became a movie in 1988. He wrote over a dozen books during his lifetime including Man on Spikes, Seven Days to Sunday, and Final Judgment. He also wrote for television and the movies, but his published credits were limited, most likely because he was blacklisted in the 1950's. He died due to complications of pneumonia on June 10, 2008.

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