Arnold Hano's A Day in the Bleachers is one of the three greatest nonfiction baseball books ever written - along with Roger Kahn's The Boys of Summer and Elliot Asinof's Eight Men Out. Inning by inning, it chronicles the opening game of the 1954 World Series, which the underdog New York Giants eventually won in four games over the Cleveland Indians. Hano takes readers into the stands in order to view the game from the perspective of the ordinary fans. He describes the most famous catch in baseba...
'Hano! A Century in the Bleachers' Profiles Sportswriting Superstar in New Documentary
The Huffington Post - 19 Jul 2015 22:35
Arnold Hano's A Day in the Bleachers is one of the three greatest nonfiction baseball books ever written - along with Roger Kahn's The Boys of Summer and Elliot Asinof's Eight Men Out. Inning by inning, it chronicles the opening game of the 1954 World Series, which the underdog New York Giants eventually won in four games over the Cleveland Indians. Hano takes readers into the stands in order to view the game from the perspective of the ordinary fans. He describes the most famous catch in baseba...
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