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Praying for Base Hits: An American Boyhood |
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Combine Little Rascals with Stand by Me, then spice it up with a little taste of the great American sport of baseball, and you'll have an inkling of the treat in store for you in Praying for Base Hits. Bruce Clayton recalls his childhood in the 1950s, recounting pranks and pitfalls. He re-creates an era in American history that has begun to take on the patina of an idyll--from trying to catch a glimpse of the local beauty, "Big Red," to being force-fed gospel by his pious mother while his father, "one of those farm boys who wasn't a big talker but had an opinion on everything," plotted trips to the Kansas City Symphony. You don't have to have experienced the 1950s to love Clayton's charming stories of the dreams, desires, and disappointments of growing up afflicted with the human "condition." --Susan Swartwout
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