The Boston Globe, April 9th, 1989
Baseball books were Bill Littlefield's introduction to literature. Those were the tomes with which the very young Littlefield felt comfortable when he first wrestled with the written word. He got started with titles such as "Second Base Sloan" by Christy Matthewson. "That's the only one I remember," Littlefield said. "But I read a lot of them. There was a time when I wouldn't read at all, and they found that by giving me sports books I would read them." The progression, then, has come full circle: from the prose of John R. Tunis to attending Robert Penn Warren's classes at Yale to teaching at...
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