John R. Tunis (1889–1975)
Autor de The Kid from Tomkinsville
Sobre El Autor
Series
Obras de John R. Tunis
The Brooklyn Dodgers Series, Three Volumes in One: The Kid from Tomkinsville, Keystone Kids, and World Series (2013) 4 copias
The American Way in Sports 3 copias
John R. Tunis - 4 Books 2 copias
A measure of independence 2 copias
A Measure of Independence 1 copia
The other side of the fence 1 copia
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Tunis, John R.
- Nombre legal
- Tunis, John Roberts
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1889-12-07
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1975-02-04
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Essex, Connecticut, USA
- Educación
- Harvard University
Boston University (Law School)
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Reseñas
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Premios
También Puede Gustarte
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 32
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 1,273
- Popularidad
- #20,147
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 8
- ISBNs
- 103
- Favorito
- 2
…. But it’s not a bad book; I wouldn’t call it bad….
Boy finds baseball. Boy loses baseball. Boy gets baseball back. I wouldn’t call it bad.
Of course, I probably won’t read the rest of the series, since baseball and the Forties both really aren’t the centerpiece type of thing on my mental table, you know. But sports stories can be interesting. It bridges the gap between the constructed world of (say) baseball, and…. Well, whatever the rest of it is, you know. Is it a natural world, that we live in? Is it constructed, and we forgot?…. Not that you’ll get that in a baseball book, you know: The Book of the American Boy, right….. But yeah, I know I started this book as a child, but I don’t think I ever finished. Then, I’d rather stay in the world-of-baseball proper, say by playing a baseball video game—which is the mental, if not the physical, world of baseball proper, you know, and not about the (metaphorical) port city where you meet the rest of life. Any novel gives you that latter aspect, the constructed/sport aspect meets the non-sport, and as a child I wanted very little of what perhaps it is not such a bad thing to call real life. Even when I watched, say, the movie ‘The Natural’—of course a child cannot know a man’s love life beyond a certain extent, anymore than I can know what it’s like to grow up in Wales, but a child open to experience probably can figure out, if they’re nine or ten and not three or four, that something other than a man hitting a ball with a stick is going on, but as a child I was afraid of life, you know. A sports story of any decade, watched openly and with a minimum of disrespect, will give you that aspect of ‘the rest of life’ in a way that a video game, or anything within and only within the mental (constructed) world of sport and nothing else, clearly doesn’t, you know.
…. The writer doesn’t create the social world he reports on, but it is funny how men, both now and certainly back then, socialized by saying that other men weren’t good enough, right.
Still, there’s the odd interlude with some wise old mentor, of course.
…. It is kinda a how-one-boy-makes-a-difference (for the collective!) type story, though, and has little to do with his ‘civilian’ life. I guess sports is right there on the edge of the whole civilian thing, sometimes.
But yeah: it is a story about rather hairy men, but it is still kinda cute, in the end. Hirsute-cuties. 😉 ….
Which I guess is me, sometimes. I don’t wait to shave until people start to make fun of me, anymore, but to look 100% your best, every day, that’s just—wasted energy….
Ok.… (más)