A long out of print novel (originally published in 1923 and never reprinted), with a new introduction by best selling novelist Darryl Brock (author of "If I Never Get Back"). Heywood Campbell Broun was a well known American newspaper writer, who helped found the American Newspaper Guild. Broun championed the underdog, criticized social injustice, and supported labor unions. He died in 1939. The Sun Field is a very modern novel, with a strong feminist character, a complicated love story, and New York baseball of the 1920's ...
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A long out of print novel (originally published in 1923 and never reprinted), with a new introduction by best selling novelist Darryl Brock (author of "If I Never Get Back"). Heywood Campbell Broun was a well known American newspaper writer, who helped found the American Newspaper Guild. Broun championed the underdog, criticized social injustice, and supported labor unions. He died in 1939. The Sun Field is a very modern novel, with a strong feminist character, a complicated love story, and New York baseball of the 1920's at its center, with another lead character plainly modeled on Babe Ruth. Broun was a sportswriter, whose love of baseball and brilliant writing style shines through this book. A treat for contemporary readers.
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Add this copy of The Sun Field to cart. $9.27, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Rvive Books.
Add this copy of The Sun Field to cart. $204.00, good condition, Sold by Bison Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from winnipeg, MB, CANADA, published 1923 by G. P. Putnam's Sons.
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pp. 204, [ads]. 8vo. Bound in maroon cloth with gold lettering to front board & spine. The bottom edges of the boards are bumped and rubbed. The tail and crown of the spine are rubbed and bumped, and the top edge of the spine is discolored. The original plain endpapers have been professionally replaced with endpapers of similar material, colour and texture. The contents are clean and unmarked. The dust jacket is green with black lettering. The top and bottom of the spine is missing for about 1/2' across and 1/4' to 1/2' down (corresponding to the bumping and fading). There are also some noticeable chips at the folds. Despite defects as noted, both the book and dust jacket are in good condition. A famed sportswriter, baseball aficianado, and critic, Broun was born in Brooklyn in 1888, and began his newspaper career with the New York Morning Telegraph in 1910. In 1921, he joined the Morning Herald (later New York Herald) where he began his famous column 'It Seems to Me'. He was a life-long friend of Christy Mathewson and Babe Ruth, and a member of the Algonquin Round Table. He died in 1939. This is his fourth book, described by Andy McCue in his baseball book bibliography 'Baseball by the Books', as 'the first novel with serious baseball content aimed at an adult audience. The book is narrated by a former sportswriter, as Broun was, in love with a free-spirited feminist, as was Broun's wife, while she falls for a baseball player who clearly is modelled on Babe Ruth. ' (p. 25).
Add this copy of The Sun Field to cart. $3,500.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1923 by G.P. Putnam's Sons.
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Very Good in Near Fine jacket. First edition. Owner name in pencil on the front fly, a couple of small splash marks and a small sunned patch near the front gutter, a very good or better copy in near fine dust jacket with a few very small nicks at the corners. According to McCue's *Baseball by the Books: A History and Bibliography of Baseball Fiction*: "The first novel with serious baseball content aimed at an adult audience. The book is narrated by a former sportswriter, as Broun was, in love with a free-spirited, intellectual feminist, as was Broun's wife, while she falls for a baseball player who is clearly modeled on Babe Ruth. Numerous players of the early 1920s appear by name." Broun was a noted wit and a member of the Algonquin Round Table along with Dorothy Parker, Alexander Woollcott, and Robert Benchley. He was also close friends with the Marx Brothers. Exceptionally uncommon in any sort of reasonably attractive dust jacket.
