Heroes Have Gone: Personal Essays on Sport, Popular Culture, and the American West

Featuring work previously unpublished, The Heroes Have Gone shows off Jim W. Corder’s consummate skills as a memoirist, essayist, and cultural critic. Though the subjects are wide-ranging―West Texas, World War II, writing and teaching, TCU football―one looms above the rest: Corder’s lifetime love affair with America’s pastoral sport, baseball.