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Playing Hard Ball
E.t. Smith
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Description for Playing Hard Ball
Paperback. A cultural comparison of two national games - cricket and baseball - written from the viewpoint of a practitioner of both codes. Cambridge University and Kent batsman Ed Smith has spent the winters since 1998 in Spring Training with the New York Mets baseball team and contrasts these iconic sports. Num Pages: 224 pages, Section: 8, colour. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; WSJC; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 15. Weight in Grams: 168.
PLAYING HARD BALL is a unique sports book, a cultural comparison of two national games - cricket, English in origin and American baseball - written from the viewpoint of a top-class practitioner of both codes. Ed Smith - the young Cambridge University and Kent batsman - has spent the winters since 1998 in Spring Training with the New York Mets baseball team. It has enabled Ed to contrast and compare arguably the two most iconic of sports from the inside. In fact, baseball had a thriving following in Britain until the Great War: Derby County's former stadium was called the ... Read more
PLAYING HARD BALL is a unique sports book, a cultural comparison of two national games - cricket, English in origin and American baseball - written from the viewpoint of a top-class practitioner of both codes. Ed Smith - the young Cambridge University and Kent batsman - has spent the winters since 1998 in Spring Training with the New York Mets baseball team. It has enabled Ed to contrast and compare arguably the two most iconic of sports from the inside. In fact, baseball had a thriving following in Britain until the Great War: Derby County's former stadium was called the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Weight
172g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349116662
SKU
V9780349116662
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Ref
99-50
About E.t. Smith
Ed Smith is one of England's most promising cricketers, the youngest batsman to score a century on his debut (aged 18 for Cambridge University v Glamorgan). He has written columns for the Sunday Telegraph and The Times.
Reviews for Playing Hard Ball
Original...engrossing...lucid and informative
Christopher Martin-Jenkins, THE TIMES
Quite simply it is brilliant
THE CRICKETER
Ed Smith is superb on analysing the different techniques involved in the two activities. He also writes with great insight... excellent on the social and historical contexts of both baseball and cricket.
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
An instructive and entertaining book, full ... Read more
Christopher Martin-Jenkins, THE TIMES
Quite simply it is brilliant
THE CRICKETER
Ed Smith is superb on analysing the different techniques involved in the two activities. He also writes with great insight... excellent on the social and historical contexts of both baseball and cricket.
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
An instructive and entertaining book, full ... Read more