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City 'Scapes Online qjbsS [Free read ebook] City 'Scapes Online [qjbsS.ebook] City 'Scapes Pdf Free Craig Carrozzi audiobook | *ebooks | Download PDF | ePub | DOC Download Now Free Download Here Download eBook #3736193 in eBooks 2012-08-10 2012-08-10File Name: B008WV8VNW | File size: 68.Mb Craig Carrozzi : City 'Scapes before purchasing it in order to gage whether or not it would be worth my time, and all praised City 'Scapes: 0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Woulda Coulda ShouldaBy Howlin' CoyoteThe San Francisco Giants had the best record in Major League Baseball in the 1960s--but they failed to win a World Series and won only one National League Pennant after a hectic three game playoff with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1962. Yet, despite the failures, this was aruguably one of the most exciting teams of that or any era and packed in the fans all over the National League. Hall of Fame stars such as Willie Mays, Willie McCovery, and Orlando Cepeda slammed baseballs off and over fences all over the league. Great pitchers such as Juan Marichal and Gaylord Perry made their mark, Marichal with one of the most unusual pitching motions in baseball history and Gaylord Perry with his infamous spitball.Yet, "City 'Scapes" isn't your usual baseball book, filled with wooden facts and relying on the oft-times predjudiced and spin-oriented pronouncements of former major league players and executives. It is a story--faction if you will--that recreates the excitement of an actual game and era, Giants vs. Cincinnati Reds in 1961, as told through the eyes of a diverse group of fans with loyalties in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Cincinnati, and who battle by virtue of their opinions as hard as the players on the field while the game is in progress. The fans are as much participants as the players, and in the 1960s they aren't distracted by the wall-to-wall entertainment bombardment of electronic scoreboards,racing cable cars, bloated-belly mascots, and other such carnival tricks. It is all about The Game. And that was more than enough.When the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers moved to the West Coast, there were tears and lamentations in the East, but on the West Coast there was almost an hysterical joy. Something that would be hard to imagine in our more jaded time where baseball is no longer king. The author has done a good job of recapturing this feeling. Roger Angel, the great sportswriter for New Yorker Magazine who grew up a Giants' fan in New York, said after watching his first game in San Francisco and with a tinge of bitterness, "The Giants and San Francisco are a match made in heaven." The reason why is all in "City 'Scapes."0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The love of brothers and baseball.By M. A. FilippelliAuthor Craig Carrozzi takes the reader on an adventure through the streets of San Francisco as two young brothers walk to Candlestick park to take in a game for which they have no tickets or money to see.Carrozzi sets the mood for getting the reader in the early 60's frame of mind by talking about KFRC and the Emperor Gene Nelson show, as well as the descriptions of some of the streets that the brothers take on their way to the ball game.This is the story of two brothers on July 6th 1961, their adventures on their way to the game and the people they meet at the ball game. While the dialogue and characters are fictional the recounting of the game is actual. This is a story of a relationship between brothers but it's also a dichotomy of conversations that you might hear at a baseball game between people that have never met before but at joined by the mutual love of baseball and how it effected their youth and memories.I found the interaction between the characters interesting and engaging as well as tidbits from the game and players mixed in. The dialogue between the brothers is fairly juevinile as you would expect it to be. The interaction between the adults at the game is mostly about baseball and a sort of one-ups-man-ship for baseball memories. I found the interactions believable.This is a quick and enjoyable read for anyone who is a Giants fan and remembers going to games in Candlestick park. I thought that Carrozzi mixed fiction and non fiction well. This certainly brought back memories of baseball games at the stick for me.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Connected me to my childhood memoriesBy P. GabrielCity 'Scapes brought me back to my youth and my childhood memories attending Candlestick. From the excitement of getting to the park, chasing baseballs as only kids do during batting practice, to the joy of watching Willie Mays, and all the nostalgic pictures, City 'Scapes connected with this life-long Giants fan. Carrozzi has taken an actual game, Giants vs. Reds on July 6, 1961, and reproduced a city's affection in neat story form. It begins on a bright San Francisco morning when two boys from a low-end district, penniless, decide to walk a few miles to Candlestick Park, sneak into the game, try to catch a batting practice ball, only to find themselves in box seats, join the cheers and jeers, hear the sages discuss the secrets of The Game and finally, at game's end, begin an exhilarated yet exhausted walk home."Craig Carrozzi has written an absorbing piece of historical fiction, an easy page- turner of a young boy's first look at a major league baseball game. In all, the entire story encompasses a few hours and yet, it spans generations of baseball lore, urban ethnicity, the possessive instincts of fans to the home team and turf; the gaps of youth and age.... in sum, the gamut of human behavior." - Art Rosenbaum, San Francisco Chronicle."A helluva good book." - Orlando Cepeda, former Giants great. "...an absorbing piece of historical fiction... [a] page-turner of a young boy's first look at a major league baseball game..." -- Art Rosenbaum, San Francisco ChronicleAbout the AuthorCraig Carrozzi was born in San Francisco, CA in 1955. He grew up in a time and place-late '50s and the '60s in San Francisco's Mission District, the historic heart of the city-of economic dislocation and social, ethnic, and political conflict and ferment. This time and place has shaped many of his attitudes and influenced much of his writing. He studied sociology and creative writing at the University of Southern California and California State University-Hayward. He took his degree in 1978 and joined the Peace Corps. He worked in a Colombian juvenile prison, running a recreation program and supervising a construction project for a youth center. After finishing his Peace Corps service, he moved to Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, and began to write. After six months, he returned to San Francisco and worked at a series of jobs-juvenile counselor, Spanish translator/interpreter, and contractor-all the while working at his writing craft. In addition to steady writing, he traveled extensively in Latin America and South East Asia. In 1998 he founded Southern Trails Publishing and brought out his first full-length work, Wedding of the Waters. This was followed by City 'Scapes and Giants' Capers, 1991, The Road to El Dorado, 1997, City 'Scapes, reprinted from City 'Scapes and Giants' Capers, 1999, and Festival of Conception, 2000. 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