Baseball in a Grain of Sand: Seeing the Game through a Small Town Season - Paperback

by Bill Gruber (Author)

Part sports journalism, part history, part memoir, this many-sided narrative follows one season with the Blue Devils of Moscow, Idaho--a rural American Legion baseball team. Showcasing baseball's enduring place in American life, the author draws on the lore of the game, and conversations with diverse fans and players--an outdoorsman juggling his son's schedule of games with bear hunting; a bewildered German college student, holding a baseball for the first time; former St. Louis Cardinal pitcher & Yale baseball coach John Stuper; the proud owner of a Derek Jeter jersey in Hokendauqua, Pennsylvania, to name a few.

Author Biography

Bill Gruber teaches baseball and American culture online for Emory University and lives in Moscow, Idaho. He is the author of several academic books and a memoir.