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

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    posted 1 week ago by Neutral Milk Dotel (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. Gamingboy posted on October 17, 2012 at 11:50 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    I MUST HAVE THIS BOOK.
    2. Bitter Calculus Instructor posted on October 17, 2012 at 11:55 PM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    My first reading of the title was: "New book collects weird stuff," Ichiro Suzuki says.
    3. Los Angeles El Hombre of Anaheim  posted on October 18, 2012 at 01:06 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Those All-Star Game pep talks better be in there!
    4. Walt Davis posted on October 18, 2012 at 06:40 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Those excerpts are not funny.
    5. Greg (U)K posted on October 18, 2012 at 06:59 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Those excerpts are not funny.

    You want to talk about not funny...this morning I had to try to explain (and failed to do so) this knee-slapper from William the Conqueror to a class for first-years.

    From William of Malmsebury's account of the battle of Hastings:

    The duke, with serene countenance, declaring aloud that God would favour his as being the righteous side, called for his arms; and when, through the haste of his attendants, he had put on his hauberk the hind part before, he corrected the mistake with a laugh, saying "The power of my dukedom shall be turned into a kingdom."
    6. Rants Mulliniks (formerly Cold Prosimian) posted on October 18, 2012 at 07:46 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    I have a feeling that knowing what a hauberk was wouldn't make that any more comical......
    7. BochysFingers posted on October 18, 2012 at 08:09 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Why do I sense that this book will be available at the Dollar Tree about a month after release?
    8. ShoeGrit posted on October 18, 2012 at 08:14 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    I remember seeing a book in a bookstore with Ichiro quotes like 9 years ago on a trip to Seattle.

    I wonder if this is just an "updated version" or if someone copied the concept.
    9. ecwcat posted on October 18, 2012 at 08:24 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Those excerpts are not funny.


    Dick
    10. Don't want the truth; just wanna see some dingers posted on October 18, 2012 at 08:46 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    My first reading of the title was: "New book collects weird stuff," Ichiro Suzuki says.


    Kramer's coffee-table book about coffee tables?
    11. vortex of dissipation posted on October 18, 2012 at 08:58 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    I remember seeing a book in a bookstore with Ichiro quotes like 9 years ago on a trip to Seattle.

    I wonder if this is just an "updated version" or if someone copied the concept.


    Shields's book originally came out in 2001. And then there's this one.
    12. ASmitty posted on October 18, 2012 at 09:41 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    Ichiro seems to really enjoy having fun at his translator's expense.

    I was assigned a translator for work once and really hated it. A colleague, on the other hand, loved having one and seemed to revel in making him say odd (but not horribly offensive) things.

    The oft-repeated story about what Ichiro had his translator say to Jason Bay at the ASG comes to mind.
    13. Dock Ellis on Acid  posted on October 18, 2012 at 10:04 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    The oft-repeated story about what Ichiro had his translator say to Jason Bay at the ASG comes to mind.

    I had never heard about this before, so I googled it. Man, that's great.
    14. Delino DeShields & Yarnell posted on October 18, 2012 at 11:36 AM #  hit 0 | hit 0

    #5 Is that like an 'ass face' put down of the king? Not bad.

    We had a Japanese contingent to our company (in Milwaukee) recently. Decided to sign a baseball as a gift. Got one with the racing sausages* on it. Talk about a weird translation.

    * we went on to tell the story of how one-time Brewer Hideo Nomo was so enamored with them that as a visiting player he later came back and sereptitiously ran as one of the sausages. At this point even the translator had given up.

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