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020			_a9780385548403 _q(hardcover)
020			_a0385548400 _q(hardcover)
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092			_a070.4497 _bM145
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aMcGee, Ryan, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aWelcome to the circus of baseball : _ba story of the perfect summer at the perfect ballpark at the perfect time / _cRyan McGee.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a2304
264		1	_aNew York : _bDoubleday, _c[2023]
300			_ax, 257 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations (chiefly color) ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"A gloriously funny, nostalgic memoir of a popular ESPN reporter who, in the summer of 1994, was a fresh-out-of-college intern for a minor league baseball team. Madness ensues as Ryan McGee spends the season steeped in sweat, fertilizer, nacho cheese sauce and pure, unadulterated joy in North Carolina with the Asheville Tourists. In the spring of 1994, Ryan McGee (new college graduate) bombed his coveted interview with ESPN - the only place he ever wanted to work. But he did receive one job offer: to work for $100 a week for the Asheville Tourists, a proud minor league baseball team in the heart of North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains. McCormick Field, home to the Tourists, had once been graced by Ty Cobb, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth and Jackie Robinson. What could go wrong? Welcome to the Circus of Baseball is McGee's hilarious, charming memoir of his first summer working in the sporting world. He has since risen the ESPN ranks to national TV, radio and internet host, but his time in Asheville still looms large. Among the many jewels of his experience...McGee recounts one of the most entertaining on-field brawls you'll ever know (between the fourteen league mascots who had assembled for the all-star game - an eight-foot tall foam-costumed crustacean, a pudgy red fox, a giant skunk . . . and they were really fighting), as well as the day he oversaw the game-day entertainer known as "Captain Dynamite and His Exploding Coffin of Death" - let's just say, things went wrong. Most important, McGee details a magical summer of baseball, of learning the ropes, of working with players on their way up to the Majors or down to extinction, and of coming to understand how the pulse of a community can beat happily through a minor league ballclub. Welcome to the Circus of Baseball is a baseball classic in the making"-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0		_aPrologue: Let's start with a bang -- Pregame: Welcome to the circus of baseball -- First Inning: "Take off your shoes, for you are standing on hallowed ground" -- Second Inning: Let's give it up for your Asheville Tourists -- Third Inning: Play ball! -- Fourth Inning: "Heywood Jablowmee, please report to the press box" -- Fifth Inning: The Blues Brothers, Macaulay Culkin, and the Circuit Rider -- Sixth Inning: At-bat food services -- Seventh Inning: Michael, O.J. and sorry, Mr. Wolfe, but you can come home again -- Seventh Inning Stretch: The battle of Hickory -- Eighth Inning: Into each life some rain must fall ... and it's usually on game days -- Ninth Inning: As good as it gets ... or is it? -- Postgame: "The Big Club is sending you up." -- Postscript: Where are they now?
600	1	0	_aMcGee, Ryan.
650		0	_aSportswriters _zUnited States _vAnecdotes.
650		0	_aSummer employment _zNorth Carolina _zAsheville.
610	2	0	_aAsheville Tourists (Baseball team) _xHistory.
610	2	0	_aMcCormick Field (Asheville, N.C.) _xHistory.
650		0	_aMinor league baseball _zNorth Carolina _zAsheville _xHistory.
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft _9870
655		7	_aAnecdotes. _2lcgft _94847
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