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Squeeze Play

A Novel

Jane Leavy 

(Author)
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21,000+ Reviews
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Description

Inspired by the author's career as a sportswriter for the Washington Post, Squeeze Play tells the story of female reporter A. B. Berkowitz, who is assigned to cover the men of the Washington Senators -- the worst team in major league baseball. Life in the locker room shows her not just the players'…um…assets but also their all-too-human frailties. Love for the game and love for the newspaper business are the stars in this hilarious and heartbreaking novel that "will have you singing a rousing chorus of 'Take Me Out to the Locker Room'"(People).

Product Details

PublisherHarper Perennial
Publish DateAugust 14, 2003
Pages400
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconPaperback / softback
EAN/UPC9780060567743
Dimensions8.0 X 5.3 X 0.9 inches | 11.3 pounds

About the Author

Jane Leavy, award-winning former sportswriter and feature writer for the Washington Post, is author of the New York Times bestsellers Sandy Koufax: A Lefty’s Legacy, The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America’s Childhood, and the comic novel Squeeze Play. She lives in Washington, D.C. and Truro, Massachusetts.

Reviews

“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

“Jane Leavy’s terrific Squeeze Play will have you reeling with laughter.” — Larry King

“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.” — Allen Barra, Entertainment Weekly

“There hasn’t been a good baseball novel since Mark Harris’s series of books about southpaw Henry Wiggins. 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 Brosnin, this tale. . . will delight.” — Publishers Weekly

Squeeze Play does for baseball what Semi-Tough did for football.” — Washington Post Book World

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