Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball

One of America''s finest poets joins forces with one of baseball''s most outrageous pitchers to paint a revealing portrait of our national game. Donald Hall''s forceful, yet elegant, prose brings together all the elements of Dock Ellis''s story into a seamless whole.  The two of them, the pitcher and the poet, give us remarkable insight into the customs and culture of this closed clannish world.  ...