Each night, from April through August, up to a quarter of a million people in small towns and cities across America watch minor league baseball, experiencing the ups and downs of their local team -- every move, every player, every inning. Welcome to the world of Short Season. Meet the Mason City Royals. Live with the team for five months, across eight mid-western towns, with "no more than two days off from April through August and a night-long bus ride every three to six days." Join in the triumphs and misadventures of its collection of hopefuls and has-beens as they get to know each other in English and Spanish, admire baseball groupies, crisscross backroads propelled by a beery-eyed driver in a rattletrap bus, play cards, steal cars, get sent up and down, and somehow through it all play good enough ball to become the Class A champions.

Short Season and Other Stories (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)

Literature & Fiction

Klinkowitz, Professor Jerry

United States

The Johns Hopkins University Press

<p>In the timeless world of fiction it is "next year" for the Mason City Royals of Jerry Klinkowitz's award-winning Short Season and Other Stories.</p>

Basepaths (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)

Short Stories & Anthologies

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Short Season and Other Stories (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)

Basepaths (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)

Short Season and Other Stories (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction)