Full name: The Celebrant: A Novel

Author: Eric Rolfe Greenberg Year: 1983 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Sports, Award winners Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780803270374 0803270372

The first two decades of the twentieth century were a time of promise and innocence in America. Hardworking immigrants could achieve the American dream; heroes were truly heroic. Eric Rolfe Greenberg brilliantly and authentically chronicles the real-life saga of the first national baseball hero, Christy Mathewson, and the fictional story of a Jewish immigrant family of jewelers. In these pages Mathewson and other great players like John McGraw, Honus Wagner, and Connie Mack discover the realities behind the shining illusions: the burdens of being a hero and the temptations that taint success. Similar books: Havana Heat by Darryl Brock Bang the Drum Slowly by Mark Harris The Southpaw by Mark Harris Sometimes You See It Coming by Kevin Baker The Iowa Baseball Confederacy by W. P. Kinsella Two in the Field by Darryl Brock If I Never Get Back by Darryl Brock The Dixie Association by Donald Hays Calico Joe by John Grisham Hard Ball by Will Weaver Bucky F*cking Dent by David Duchovny Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella The Pitch That Killed by Mike Sowell The Thrill of the Grass by W. P. Kinsella A Girl Named Dan by Dandi Daley Mackall The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach Miracle on 49th Street by Mike Lupica The Last Shot by Darcy Frey The Professional by W. C. Heinz This Love Is Not For Cowards by Robert Andrew Powell