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Subject: Baseball Short Story
Category: Sports and Recreation > Team Sports
Asked by: rosebud17-ga
List Price: $5.00
Posted: 13 Sep 2002 17:41 PDT
Expires: 13 Oct 2002 17:41 PDT
Question ID: 64835
Looking for a short story that takes place in a baseball
stadium/stand.  A guy has a little angel/alter ego talking to him
throughout the game. Some words from the title are The Night Manny....
stole home? base.
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Subject: Re: Baseball Short Story
Answered By: juggler-ga on 13 Sep 2002 18:34 PDT
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
Hello.

The story is probably "The Night Manny Mota Tied the Record" by W.P.
Kinsella.

On a web page called, "Guide to Baseball Fiction: W.P. Kinsella," the
detail that you mention about the angel is described as follows:

"An angel offers a fan the chance to exchange his life for the late
Thurman Munson's." [description of  "The Night Manny Mota Tied the
Record" ]
The web page is hosted by University of Texas - Arlington:
http://www.uta.edu/english/tim/baseball/kinsella.html

The story is included in an anthology called "The Thrill of the
Grass," listed on Abebooks.com:
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/abe/BookDetails?bi=71704528

"The Thrill of the Grass" is available from Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140073868/

search strategy: baseball, fiction, "night manny"
I hope this helps.
rosebud17-ga rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars
That's it! Awesome! Thanks so much!

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