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The Home That Lies Always in Memory

Novelist and scholar Richard Marius hauntingly recalls the farm where he grew up in East Tennessee

By Richard Marius | July 3, 2018

This essay originally appeared in Touchstone, a publication of Humanities Tennessee, in 1986.

The Grandest Stage: A History of the World Series

By Tyler Kepner
Doubleday
336 pages
$30

“What’s it like to manage in the World Series, and what are the secrets of building a champion? Kepner celebrates unexpected heroes like Bill Wambsganss, who pulled off an unassisted triple play in 1920, probes the mysteries behind magic moments (Did Babe Ruth call his shot in 1932? How could Eckersley walk Mike Davis to get to Kirk Gibson in 1988?) and busts some long-time myths (the 1919 Reds were much better than the Black Sox, anyway).”

~ the publisher