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100 1  McGee, Ryan,|eauthor. 
245 10 Welcome to the circus of baseball :|ba story of the 
       perfect summer at the perfect ballpark at the perfect time
       /|cRyan McGee. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bDoubleday,|c[2023] 
300    x, 257 pages :|billustrations (chiefly color) ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
505 00 |tPrologue: Let's start with a bang --|tPregame: Welcome 
       to the circus of baseball --|tFirst Inning: "Take off your
       shoes, for you are standing on hallowed ground" --|tSecond
       Inning: Let's give it up for your Asheville Tourists --
       |tThird Inning: Play ball! --|tFourth Inning: "Heywood 
       Jablowmee, please report to the press box" --|tFifth 
       Inning: The Blues Brothers, Macaulay Culkin, and the 
       Circuit Rider --|tSixth Inning: At-bat food services --
       |tSeventh Inning: Michael, O.J. and sorry, Mr. Wolfe, but 
       you can come home again --|tSeventh Inning Stretch: The 
       battle of Hickory --|tEighth Inning: Into each life some 
       rain must fall ... and it's usually on game days --|tNinth
       Inning: As good as it gets ... or is it? --|tPostgame: 
       "The Big Club is sending you up." --|tPostscript: Where 
       are they now? 
520    "A gloriously funny, nostalgic memoir of a popular ESPN 
       reporter who, in the summer of 1994, was a fresh-out-of-
       college intern for a minor league baseball team. Madness 
       ensues as Ryan McGee spends the season steeped in sweat, 
       fertilizer, nacho cheese sauce and pure, unadulterated joy
       in North Carolina with the Asheville Tourists. In the 
       spring of 1994, Ryan McGee (new college graduate) bombed 
       his coveted interview with ESPN - the only place he ever 
       wanted to work. But he did receive one job offer: to work 
       for $100 a week for the Asheville Tourists, a proud minor 
       league baseball team in the heart of North Carolina's Blue
       Ridge Mountains. McCormick Field, home to the Tourists, 
       had once been graced by Ty Cobb, Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth and
       Jackie Robinson. What could go wrong? Welcome to the 
       Circus of Baseball is McGee's hilarious, charming memoir 
       of his first summer working in the sporting world. He has 
       since risen the ESPN ranks to national TV, radio and 
       internet host, but his time in Asheville still looms 
       large. Among the many jewels of his experience...McGee 
       recounts one of the most entertaining on-field brawls 
       you'll ever know (between the fourteen league mascots who 
       had assembled for the all-star game - an eight-foot tall 
       foam-costumed crustacean, a pudgy red fox, a giant skunk .
       . . and they were really fighting), as well as the day he 
       oversaw the game-day entertainer known as "Captain 
       Dynamite and His Exploding Coffin of Death" - let's just 
       say, things went wrong. Most important, McGee details a 
       magical summer of baseball, of learning the ropes, of 
       working with players on their way up to the Majors or down
       to extinction, and of coming to understand how the pulse 
       of a community can beat happily through a minor league 
       ballclub. Welcome to the Circus of Baseball is a baseball 
       classic in the making"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 McGee, Ryan. 
610 20 Asheville Tourists (Baseball team)|xHistory. 
610 20 McCormick Field (Asheville, N.C.)|xHistory. 
650  0 Sportswriters|zUnited States|vAnecdotes. 
650  0 Summer employment|zNorth Carolina|zAsheville. 
650  0 Minor league baseball|zNorth Carolina|zAsheville|xHistory.