Bob Weintraub's stories have appeared in several publications including 96 Inc. and NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture. He is a graduate of Brandeis University and Boston University School of Law and lives in Newton, Massachusetts, with his wife, Sandra.
"Weintraub has executed a triple play: savvy baseball writing,
unforgettable characters, and a home run ending for each tale." —W.
P. Kinsella, author of Shoeless Joe
"Great storytelling for fans and nonfans alike. Bob Weintraub has
big-league talent." —Dan Shaughnessy, author of The Curse of the
Bambino and columnist for the Boston Globe
"The prevailing trend seems to be to reduce baseball to numbers, to
take out the adjectives and hyperbole, eliminating the descriptions
of facial tics and personal travails and sunsets, to treat the game
as some algebraic problem stretched across a blackboard in the
basement of stats guru Bill James or some other math junkie. I
myself prefer my baseball with the imagination left in, thank you
very much. This collection of deft stories by Robert Weintraub
takes us back to the bleachers and locker rooms, to the people who
actually play and watch the game. Very nice. Very nice, indeed."
—Leigh Montville, New York Times bestselling author of The Big Bam:
The Life and Times of Babe Ruth and Ted Williams: The Biography of
an American Hero
"Imaginative baseball stories for long rain delays and hot stove
league nights." —Darryl Brock, author of If I Never Get Back and
Two in the Field
"Unique and wonderfully twisted." —Ed Asner, actor
"These stories are as faithful to the spirit of a ball game as a
box score, yet with all the color of a yarn told in a clubhouse
during a rain delay." —Michael Coffey, author of 27 Men Out:
Baseball's Perfect Games
"Weintraub has executed a triple play: savvy baseball writing,
unforgettable characters, and a home run ending for each tale." —W.
P. Kinsella, author of Shoeless Joe
"Great storytelling for fans and nonfans alike. Bob Weintraub has
big-league talent." —Dan Shaughnessy, author of The Curse of the
Bambino and columnist for the Boston Globe
"The prevailing trend seems to be to reduce baseball to numbers, to
take out the adjectives and hyperbole, eliminating the descriptions
of facial tics and personal travails and sunsets, to treat the game
as some algebraic problem stretched across a blackboard in the
basement of stats guru Bill James or some other math junkie. I
myself prefer my baseball with the imagination left in, thank you
very much. This collection of deft stories by Robert Weintraub
takes us back to the bleachers and locker rooms, to the people who
actually play and watch the game. Very nice. Very nice, indeed."
—Leigh Montville, New York Times bestselling author of The Big Bam:
The Life and Times of Babe Ruth and Ted Williams: The Biography of
an American Hero
"Imaginative baseball stories for long rain delays and hot stove
league nights." —Darryl Brock, author of If I Never Get Back and
Two in the Field
"Unique and wonderfully twisted." —Ed Asner, actor
"These stories are as faithful to the spirit of a ball game as a
box score, yet with all the color of a yarn told in a clubhouse
during a rain delay." —Michael Coffey, author of 27 Men Out:
Baseball's Perfect Games
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