Playing Hard Ball: A Kent County Cricketer’s Journey Into Big League Baseball (Paperback)
Review
* ‘Original.engrossing.lucid and informative’ – Christopher Martin-Jenkins, THE TIMES * ‘Quite simply it is brilliant’ – THE CRICKETER * ‘Ed Smith is superb on analysing the different techniques involved in the two activities. He also writes with great insight. excellent on the social and historical contexts of both baseball and cricket.’ Sunday Telegraph
Product Description
A cultural comparison of two national games—cricket, English in origin, and American baseball—written from the viewpoint of a top-class practitioner of both codes. E.T. Smith, the young Cambridge University and Kent batsman, has spent the winters since 1998 in Spring Training with the New York Mets baseball team. It has enabl (more…)
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