The Fifth Season: Tales of My Life in Baseball

"If you were much of a boy growing up in the Maspeth section of Queens in the late 1930s and 1940s, you had the baseball fever. It seemed contagious, but it struck mostly from within. . . . Often, in later years, when I was writing a long series of books on the game, some well-intended philistine would ask to have explained to him the fascination with baseball. I offered my stock answer: 'If you have to ask the question, you'll never understand the answer.'" With this small confession Donald Honig begins his charming memoir of a life devoted to the charms of baseball, including the many great figures of the game he has known in the past half-century.

Author: Donald Honing

Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher

Publication Date: Feb 16, 2009

Number of Pages: 296 pages

Binding: Hardback or Cased Book

ISBN-10: 1566638100

ISBN-13: 9781566638104