Squeeze Play: A Novel by Jane Leavy

Squeeze Play: A Novel



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Squeeze Play: A Novel Jane Leavy
Language: English
Page: 400
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0060567740, 9780061479335
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From Publishers Weekly

Leavy's hilarious debut about a female sportswriter's tribulations covering an expansion baseball team's first year is a strong early candidate for MVP of the 1990 sports novel season. A. B. (Ariadne Bloom) Berkowitz's troubles begin with a fundamental crisis ("alone with a locker room full of naked men I did not know") and get rapidly worse. The team, the Washington Senators, is horrible, and while its corrupt televangelist owner soon forbids the players to talk to A.B., they continue to attempt to gross her out at every opportunity. Her editor demands headlines, no matter at whose cost, her boyfriend finds solace in the arms of a young copy aide, and her best source on the team--an aging All-Star catcher--is becoming romantically interested. As raunchy as stories by Dan Jenkins and Peter Gent, as authentic as exposes by Jim Bouton and Jim Brosnin, this tale by a former sportswriter for the Washington Post will delight readers willing to accept a healthy dose of vulgarity with their humor, especially those who know and love the rhythms and complexities of the national pastime.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to the

edition.

From Library Journal

This autobiographical first novel by Leavy, a former sportswriter for the Washington Post , is in the form of a baseball diary kept by A.B. Berkowitz, the female reporter covering the newly reborn Washington Senators, a team owned by a TV evangelist. The team breaks all previous records for ineptitude, but when A.B. persists in pointing this out, the team refuses to talk to her. She covers them nonetheless, breaking an occasional story, though torn between professsional obligations and dislike of violating the private confidences of players. There is a lot of foul locker room language and bawdiness, which may trouble some readers, but this is a funny, tender, true-to-life story of baseball, journalism, and war between the sexes. Recommended for your baseball lovers.
- Marylaine Block, St. Ambrose Univ., Davenport, Ia.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to the

edition.

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