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Welcome to the circus of baseball : a story of the perfect summer at the perfect ballpark at the perfect time / Ryan McGee.

by McGee, Ryan, author.

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New York : Doubleday, [2023]

Sportswriters -- United States -- Anecdotes.

Baseball -- Anecdotes.

Minor league baseball -- North Carolina -- Asheville -- History.

9780385548403 (hardcover) :

0385548400 (hardcover) :

x, 257 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

"Welcome to the Circus of Baseball is the hilarious, charming memoir of Ryan McGee's first summer working in the professional 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 witness (a dozen foam-costume-encrusted mascots at the famed all-star game--and they were really fighting); the nervous moment he oversaw the game-day entertainer known as Captain Dynamite and His Exploding Coffin of Death; and a concession stand failure of such epic proportion that McGee himself nearly drowned in vanilla soft-serve ice cream syrup. Most important, McGee details a magical summer of baseball, of learning the ropes at the ballpark, of mastering the ins and outs of running a minor-league team, and of coming to understand how the pulse of a rural community can beat gloriously through its local ball club. Welcome to the Circus of Baseball is a nostalgic, warmhearted classic in the making"-- Provided by publisher.

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