Only a Game

Bill Littlefield‏

يناير 2007 · U of Nebraska Press

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From baseball Hall of Famer Kirby Puckett's untimely death, to pickup soccer games among misfit high-schoolers, to the most obscure nicknames and unusual mascots in college sports, this book collects memorable commentaries from Littlefield's popular NPR sports talk show, as well as many essays.

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Bill Littlefield is the former host of the syndicated National Public Radio sports show Only a Game from 1993 to 2018. For thirty-eight years he taught in the Department of English at Curry College in Milton, Massachusetts, where he also served as writer-in-residence. Littlefield is the author or editor of several books, including The Top of His Game: The Best Sportswriting of W.C. Heinz, Take Me Out, and Baseball Days and Champions: Stories of Ten Remarkable Athletes.