{"product_id":"bushville-life-and-time-in-amateur-baseball-9780786409792","title":"Bushville: Life and Time in Amateur Baseball","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jerry Kelly\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Baseball - Essays \u0026amp; Writings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From \u003ci\u003eBushville: \u003c\/i\u003e \"The game is a fine construct. Its trace through anyone's life can range from a youthful diversion to a full-blown career, a tender small-fingered grasp to a deep muscular understanding. It provides a focus and a way to express the physical self in a physical world. I've played every moment of every game in my life as an amateur in the best sense of that word--doing something I love just for the love of it. The roots of that soulful effort run as deep as my earliest memories, measuring them. And possibly, yours likewise.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e To play baseball is to become part of the game. One need not be a megabuck star to live baseball as a participant, to figure into its geometry and its drama. The friendly exertions of amateur play lie at the heart of the sport, comprising the wellspring of its professional levels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Here viewed as a pastime through the eyes of a lifelong amateur player, baseball unfolds as an experience of motion and time and senses--the work of muscle, the textures of wood and leather, the warmth of sun, the scents of a grassy field. In the timeless continuity of the game can be glimpsed part of baseball's singular appeal: the lively tension between the momentary and the eternal, what is over and what is never over. The interwoven essays making up \u003ci\u003eBushville\u003c\/i\u003e are a poignant reflection upon the pursuit of what is essentially a ball, but what is crucially human as well.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47781070012567,"sku":"9780786409792","price":1937.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780786409792.webp?v=1778050345","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/bushville-life-and-time-in-amateur-baseball-9780786409792","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}