Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu review

If you are looking for a gift for a baseball fan in your life, look no further.Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu, by John Updike. It was originally an essay in The New Yorker, but the Library of America has republished it in a beautiful little volume, complete with the footnotes Updike later added and an essay he later wrote. The topic? Updike went to the last game Ted Williams ever played. What emerged was this beautiful paean to everything that is beautiful about baseball. I cannot even hope to … [Read more...] about Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu