Lest we forget: Donald Hall

June 26, 2018

Image result for donald hall, paris reviewHall published two baseball titles which  what I would classify as “quiet classics,” in that they never created as much buzz as something like, say, Moneyball or The Glory of Their Times. He passed away on Saturday at the age of 89. Here’s his obit from The New York Times.

Perhaps his best known was his 1976 Dock Ellis in the Country of Baseball, about the iconoclastic pitcher who once threw a no-hitter for the Pittsburgh Pirates while “enjoying” the effects of LSD.

In 1985, Hall gave us Fathers Playing Catch with Sons: Essays on Sport (Mostly Baseball), the title of which alone evokes a feeling of nostalgia.

Look for an uptick in sales on Amazon for these titles.

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