Random House N.Y.

Random House N.Y.

English

"THE CHURCH OF BASEBALL is one of the best books ever written about the making of a movie. But it’s much more than a first-rate insider’s take on the business. It’s a book about the human comedy. Ron Shelton’s perceptions about people and predicaments have a novelistic richness. You don’t need to know a thing about movies or the infield fly rule to savor THE CHURCH OF BASEBALL.” --Peter Rainer, Author of Rainer on Film: Thirty Years of Film Writing in a Turbulent and Transformative Era; Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism“This book tells you how to make a movie – the whole nine innings of it – out of nothing but sheer will. And it’s Ron Shelton so you can’t stop smiling even when it all goes sideways. It’s always fascinating to hear how great films fall together, this time you’ve got the guy who called the game spinning the yarn. Major League stuff.” --Tony Gilroy, writer/director of Michael Clayton and The Bourne Legacy