{"product_id":"the-warsaw-sparks-a-memoir-paperback","title":"The Warsaw Sparks: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGary Gildner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAlbert E. Stone\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eGary Gildner\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1987 noted poet and author Gary Gildner went to Poland on a Fulbright scholarship to teach at the University of Warsaw. One January day, a Warsaw sportswriter came knocking on Gildner's classroom door with a problem and a request. The professional baseball team he had organized the year before could not win; would the professor--who he had heard was a baseball player--come help?\u003cbr\u003eTold with gripping lyric simplicity, \u003ci\u003eThe Warsaw Sparks\u003c\/i\u003e is about an American's experience coaching a baseball team in Poland and about hope and memory and the education of a poet. Prepare to meet an unlikely cast of characters, including Stan Musial, Lech Walesa, Dariusz the Organizer, and such Sparks as Froggy, Pizza Hut, the Cubans, and little Jerzy Bin the catcher: \"Call me George, Coach. Like George Herman Babe Ruth.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGary Gildner is an award-winning poet and novelist whose works include \u003ci\u003eMy Grandfather's Book\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlue Like the Heavens\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Bunker in the Parsley Fields\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Iowa Poetry Prize. He has also received the National Magazine Award for Fiction, Pushcart Prizes in fiction and nonfiction, the Robert Frost Fellowship, the William Carlos Williams and Theodore Roethke poetry prizes, and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Albert E. Stone is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eLiterary Aftershocks: American Writers, Readers, and the Bomb\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52466272043315,"sku":"9780803217560","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/BY0xcEXc8v9780803217560.webp?v=1759315994","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-warsaw-sparks-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}