Lanterna Rally

Author: Zane Grey

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Published: 2010-10-29

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781453899120

Zane Grey is best known today for his dozens of Western novels. But Grey was a fine college and minor league baseball player before he began his writing career, and wrote several baseball books for younger readers. The Red-Headed Outfield was a labor of love for Grey, coming several years after his most famous Western, Riders of the Purple Sage. As with most of his novels, the details and characters are thought to be based loosely on his own life and experience--in this case, his own baseball life, and that of his brother, Romer "R.C." Grey, who also played professional baseball. The Red-Headed Outfield is a series of interlocking stories about kids playing baseball--the kind of book that's rarely written or published today, and we are the lesser for it. When it was originally published it was read by nearly every teen-age boy in the country; Zane Grey's ballplayers were cultural currency for boys back then, just like the characters in the Harry Potter stories are today. And the stories hold up. There's action; there's humor; there's good baseball strategy. Winners don't cheat, and cheaters don't win, and playing the game the right way is valued above all. Grey's other baseball books, The Shortstop and The Young Pitcher, are also now available. And his many Westerns have never gone out of print, and are available in many editions. Enjoy The Red-Headed Outfield, and pass these great stories on to yet another generation of young readers!