Homestand
Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America
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Narrateur(s):
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Dan Bittner
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Auteur(s):
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Will Bardenwerper
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A poignant memoir exploring small town baseball as a lens into what’s right and wrong with modern America—written by an acclaimed journalist and Army Ranger who, after returning from Iraq to a painfully divided country, rediscovered its core values in the bleachers of a minor league ballpark in Batavia, New York.
"Bardenwerper finds hope in the people and community around a former minor league baseball team.”—Washington Post
"Will reveal more about the prospects for America than 100 news stories about politics, and will be a lot more fun.”—James Fallows, bestselling co-author of Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America
What happens when a minor league team—the heart and soul of a Rust Belt town in western New York—is shut down by the billionaires who run Major League Baseball?
Batavia, New York—between Rochester and Buffalo—hosted its first professional baseball game in 1897. Despite decades of deindustrialization and evaporating middle-class jobs, the Batavia Muckdogs endured. When Major League Baseball cravenly shut them down in 2020—along with forty-one other minor league teams—the town fought back, reviving the Muckdogs as a summer league team comprised of college players. As MLB considers further cuts and private equity buys up what remains, the mom-and-pop operations once prevalent in baseball are endangered. But for now, the sights and sounds of local baseball live on in Batavia—cheap draft beer and hot dogs, starry-eyed kids seeking autographs, and breathtaking summer sunsets.
With a vibrant, unforgettable cast of characters—from a librarian and her best friend whose relationship deepens with every “crepuscular hour” they spend together in the bleachers, to the former hockey brawler-turned team owner who greets regulars while working the concession stand, to the iconoclastic writer with a contagious love for his struggling hometown—Bardenwerper’s Homestand exposes the beating heart of small town America, friends and neighbors coming together as the crack of the bat echoes in the summer twilight.
©2025 Will Bardenwerper (P)2025 Random House AudioCe que les critiques en disent
“[Bardenwerper] recounts what was lost in Batavia when minor-league baseball left town—and what was found when a new squad bearing the old name was established in its place.... This is a story about sporting competition, but really it is a tale about community.”—Wall Street Journal
“A romantic look at the magic of small-town baseball.... In Homestand, journalist Will Bardenwerper finds hope in the people and community around a former minor league baseball team.”—Washington Post
“An informative, often emotional account of small-town baseball and 'the special group of people' on the field, behind the scenes, and in the stands 'who help keep it alive one summer at a time.'”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette