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Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On

by Nelles Van Loon

A long-running friendship told through amateur baseball

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A long-running friendship told through amateur baseball

Nelles Van Loon frames four decades of shared baseball as a record of friendship, aging, and the lasting pull of play. The book centers on a group whose games ranged from improvised affairs to closely contested matchups marked by pitching, fielding, and home runs. Baseball serves as the common ground that outlasts earlier connections through volleyball and hockey, returning the players to a youthful sense of freedom beneath the summer sky. The emphasis is on the companionship built over many seasons and on the rituals of a game that remained meaningful as the group grew older.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in baseball-centered personal narratives
  • Fans of books about enduring friendship and shared pastimes
  • Adults drawn to reflections on aging and recreation

Themes

BaseballLong-term friendshipAgingMemoryPlay and community

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Book overview

This book tells the story of a group of friends who played baseball together for over forty years. We grew old together but never lost that kids-in-the-schoolyard feeling. While there were games that felt patched together, there were others that attained palpable beauty. Good pitching, good-occasionally spectacular-fielding, long home runs, the outcome uncertain until the last out. A few of us had played volleyball and hockey together, but it was baseball that won us for the long haul, a green world with foul lines extending to forever where we grew young again under a summer sky.

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