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Presents a correlation study of student satisfaction with Writing Center services based on the number of visits students made to the Center during two different semesters. Tells a story of how the writing center staff learned to stop fearing numbers and love the interpretation of them. Finds no statistically significant correlation between number of visits and student satisfaction. (SG)

Argues that only from the inside can writers define their own metaphors to make what others say about writing centers the same as what they themselves say. Asserts that this goal will always remain elusive; and, though to pursue it is to empower writers, to achieve it would be to arrive at a definition, a comfortable but naive position. (PRA)

Mark Harris's It Looked Like Forever, the last of his four Henry Wiggen novels, has received far less critical commentary than the first two, The Southpaw and Bang the Drum [...]

James T. Farrell. Dreaming Baseball. Preface by Eliot Asinof. Afterword by Ron Briley. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2007. 316 pp. Cloth, $28.00. Author of more than twenty-seven novels [...]

Eliot Asinof. Off-Season. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000. 149 pp. Cloth, $22.50. In his classic study of the Black Sox Scandal, Eight Men Out, Eliot Asinof portrays the banned [...]

David McGimpsey. Imagining Baseball: America's Pastime and Popular Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. 194 pp. Cloth, $29.95. David McGimpsey's Imagining Baseball proposes 'to initiate a discussion of how representations [...]

Describes the experiences of a university professor teaching high school English for one week. Notes the lack of time for individual instruction and the benefits of meeting students daily. Proposes that any professor responsible for teacher education should be required to teach in the public schools at least every two to three years. (RS)

Lawrence Baldassaro. Beyond DiMaggio: Italian Americans in Baseball. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2011. 472 pp. Cloth, $34.95. Peter Carino While too often baseball books that purport to examine some [...]

James W. Pipkin. Sporting Lives: Metaphor and Myth in American Sports Autobiographies. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2008. 161 pp. ISBN 0-82621779-6, $29.95. James W Pipkin's Sporting Lives gives scholarly [...]

Michael Steinberg. Still Pitching. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2003. 300 pp. Cloth, $27.95. Fans often come to baseball through playing the game in youth, through rooting for a [...]

Mike Lupica. Wild Pitch. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2002. 352 pp. Cloth, $24.95. Most readers of NINE know Mike Lupica as the tough-talking, some might say mouthy, little [...]

Argues the necessity of bridging the gap between the personal writing traditionally assigned in basic writing courses and the academic writing which students are expected to produce in their other courses. Offers manageable strategies that enable students to articulate arguments based on sources. (MS)

Hobe Hays. Take Two and Hit to Right: Golden Days on the Semi-Pro Diamond. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. X + 239 pp. Illustrations. Paper, $14.00 In Field of [...]

Mark Twain, Westward Expansion, Immigrant Unrest Baseball and American Growing Pains in Darryl Brock's If I Never Get Rack Darryl Brock's If I Never Get Back recounts the time traveling [...]

Presents an exercise that guides basic writing students in their choices, requiring them to make evaluative annotations of each sentence in the draft of a paragraph. Includes (1) a set of questions that incorporate criteria for a sound paragraph and serve heuristically for the revision of the draft, and (2) a student example of the procedure. (HTH)