Wild
and Outside -How a Renegade Minor League
Revived the Spirit of Baseball in America's Heartland
by Stefan Fatsis
Come to Sioux Falls and Sioux City, St.
Paul and Duluth, Fargo and Madison, Thunder Bay and Winnipeg,
where the baseball is "wild and outside" -- unpredictable
like an errant pitch, played under the summer sky, beyond
the ranks of organized baseball -- and where fans and players
alike have rediscovered the fun and romance of the game.
This is the completely independent Northern League of Professional
Baseball, and Wild and Outside is its story.
As rich in insights into baseball's problems as it is full
of indelible portraits, it makes clear how very much baseball
still means to America.
"Understanding the Northern League is to understand
the past and future of grassroots baseball in America. This
is an era in which many of wish baseball could return to
the human level, and this book shows us much of the way
we wish it were." -- Peter Gammons, ESPN baseball analyst.
"Nothing makes a sportswriter more nervous than an
outsider waltzing into our tight little world and capturing
its essence in graceful prose. Is it that simple, or is
Stefan Fatsis that good? Thank you for a great book." --
Bob Ryan, The Boston Globe
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