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Playing Hard Ball by E.T. Smith - ISBN: 9780349116662
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Two sports, two nations, two heroes, one fascinating inside story.

Playing Hard Ball

County Cricket and Big League Baseball

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  • Paperback

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    1 January 2000

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Summary

PLAYING HARD BALL is a unique sports book, a cultural comparison of two national games - cricket, English in origin and American baseball - written from the viewpoint of a top-class practitioner of both codes. Ed Smith - the young Cambridge University and Kent batsman - has spent the winters since 1998 in Spring Training with the New York Mets baseball team. It has enabled Ed to contrast and compare arguably the two most iconic of sports from the inside. In fact, baseball had a thriving follo…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780349116662
ISBN-10:0349116660
Author:E.T. Smith
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Abacus
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Release Date:1 January 2000
Weight:168g
Dimensions:196mm x 126mm x 16mm
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Critics Review

Quite simply it is brilliant

‘Original engrossing lucid and informative’ Christopher Martin-Jenkins, THE TIMES

‘Quite simply it is brilliant’ THE CRICKETER

‘Ed Smith is superb on analysing the different techniques involved in the two activities. He also writes with great insight excellent on the social and historical contexts of both baseball and cricket.’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

‘An instructive and entertaining book, full of insights.’ DAILY TELEGRAPH

‘A penetrating book written with the command of a professional sportsman.’ DAILY MAIL

‘The road to enlightenment is an entertaining one It proceeds via autobiography, travelogue, and sporting anthropology with plenty of good stories along the way. INDEPENDENT

Original…engrossing…lucid and informative - Christopher Martin-Jenkins, THE TIMES

Quite simply it is brilliant - THE CRICKETER

About The Author

E.T. Smith

Ed Smith is one of England’s most promising cricketers, the youngest batsman to score a century on his debut (aged 18 for Cambridge University v Glamorgan). He has written columns for the Sunday Telegraph and The Times.

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