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Highlights
- Inspired by the author's career as a sportswriter for the Washington Post, Squeeze Play tells the story of female reporter A. B. Berkowitz, who is assigned to cover the men of the Washington Senators -- the worst team in major league baseball.
- Author(s): Jane Leavy
- 400 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Sports
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Book Synopsis
Inspired by the author's career as a sportswriter for the Washington Post, Squeeze Play tells the story of female reporter A. B. Berkowitz, who is assigned to cover the men of the Washington Senators -- the worst team in major league baseball. Life in the locker room shows her not just the players'...um...assets but also their all-too-human frailties. Love for the game and love for the newspaper business are the stars in this hilarious and heartbreaking novel that "will have you singing a rousing chorus of 'Take Me Out to the Locker Room'"(People).
Review Quotes
"Does baseball mythology proud. . . the overall effect is that of a surreal parody, with a baseball team and newsroom that Mel Brooks might have assembled, where nobody and no activity is life-size, and where sex is a metaphor for baseball: you gotta play hurt." -- New York Times Book Review
"Jane Leavy's terrific Squeeze Play will have you reeling with laughter." -- Larry King
"The best novel ever written about baseball. . . the funniest, raunchiest, and most compassionate baseball novel I've ever read. . . Sure to offend some people who cried during Field of Dreams--and that's good enough for me." -- Allen Barra, Entertainment Weekly
"There hasn't been a good baseball novel since Mark Harris's series of books about southpaw Henry Wiggins. Until this one...Squeeze Play will have you singing a rousing chorus of 'Take Me Out to the Locker Room.'" -- People
"Leavy's hilarious debut is a strong early candidate for MVP of the. . . sports novel season. . . . As raunchy as stories by Dan Jenkins and Peter Gent, as authentic as exposes by Jim Bouton and Jim Brosnin, this tale. . . will delight." -- Publishers Weekly
"Squeeze Play does for baseball what Semi-Tough did for football." -- Washington Post Book World