Program 25:  Week of March 25 - March 31, 2006
James T. Farrell, "My Grandmother Goes to Comiskey Park," read by John Shea
From: My Baseball Diary (Southern Illinois University Press)
Philip Roth, Selection from Portnoy's Complaint, read by Isaiah Sheffer
Published by: Vintage
Rolfe Humphries, "Polo Grounds," read by David Strathairn
Collected in: Baseball: A Literary Anthology (Library of America)
Yusef Komunyakaa, "Glory," read by Isaiah Sheffer
From: "Magic City" in Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems (Wesleyan University Press)
W.P. Kinsella, "The Thrill of the Grass," read by John Shea
From: The Thrill of the Grass (Penguin)
A. Bartlett Giamatti, "The Green Fields of the Mind," read by the author
Collected in: A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti, edited by Kenneth S. Robson (Algonquin Books)

Please check your local NPR air time for symphony space.  "the thrill of the grass" is AN!!