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Playing Hard Ball: A Kent County Cricketer’s Journey Into Big League Baseball (Paperback)

December 22nd, 2009 arnx Leave a comment Go to comments

Playing Hard Ball: A Kent County Cricketer's Journey Into Big League Baseball

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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