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Friday, May 10, 2013

Harper’s: Lucas Mann on hope and change in a minor-league-baseball city

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posted on May 10, 2013 at 05:55 PM by Matt Chico's Bail Bonds (Dan Lee) to books, minor leagues | 4 comment(s)

There are thousands of young men on minor-league baseball rosters working toward a spot in the majors. Most of them won’t make it. With this in mind, essayist Lucas Mann spent the 2010 season in Clinton, Iowa, watching the city’s Class A team, the LumberKings. In his new book, Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere (Pantheon), Mann writes about becoming intimate with the players, the fans, and the town, and explores the themes of nostalgia, failure, and hope.

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1. Mayor Blomberg posted on September 16, 2012 at 11:09 AM # hit 0 | hit 0

“We are all familiar with the law of unintended consequences. I wonder if, knowing what he knows now, Nyjer Morgan would have acted up like he did in the ninth inning of that game after Carp struck him out.”

You suuuure you're familiar with that law?

2. Bob Tufts posted on September 16, 2012 at 12:15 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I'll wait for the movie version with the soundtrack from Asleep at the Wheel. Drunk driving has actual unintended consequences.

3. KT's Pot Arb posted on September 16, 2012 at 12:52 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

There goes Nyjer's sterling reputation.

4. Bob Tufts posted on September 16, 2012 at 12:57 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

I'd also include in the movie a scene with TLR slumped over the steering wheel with George Thorogood's "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" blaring on his car radio as the police approach.

5. Harveys Wallbangers

posted on September 16, 2012 at 01:17 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

tony is so much bigger in the game in terms of stature he demeans himself by taking swipes at a fourth outfielder

6. cardsfanboy

posted on September 16, 2012 at 01:25 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

tony is so much bigger in the game in terms of stature he demeans himself by taking swipes at a fourth outfielder

It's a 300+ page book, focused almost exclusively on last season, there is obviously going to be comments about the Brewers in the book, if this excerpt is the extent of it, then this is a total non-story.

7. Loren F. posted on September 16, 2012 at 02:09 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Knowing BTF, this will likely be known forevermore as "Tony's Nyjer Morgan book." The question is how quickly someone adopts it as their new BTF handle.

8. Der_K posted on September 16, 2012 at 02:34 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

6 - agreed - and I like Morgan more than most.

9. Commissioner Bud Black Beltre Hillman posted on September 16, 2012 at 02:57 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

But did he criticize Tony Plush?

10. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) posted on September 16, 2012 at 04:10 PM # hit 0 | hit 0

Billy Beane should have never written this book.

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