How Long to Read Playing Hard Ball

How Long Does it Take to Read Playing Hard Ball?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 35 minutes to read Playing Hard Ball by Ed Smith

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

PLAYING HARD BALL ia a unique sports book, a cultural comparison of two national games - cricket, English in origin and American baseball - written from the viewpoint of a top-class practitioner of both codes. Ed Smith - the young Cambridge University and Kent batsman - has spent the winters since 1998 in Spring Training with the New York Mets baseball team. It has enabled Ed to contrast and compare arguably the two most iconic of sports from the inside. In fact, baseball had a thriving following in Britain until the early part of the 20th century (Derby County's former stadium was called the Baseball Ground; Tottenham Hotspur was at first a baseball club). Apart from learning two very different techniques, Ed learned that the sports' ultimate heroes, the Babe and the Don - Babe Ruth and Don Bradman - might as well have come from different planets, whilst baseball's pristine Hall of Fame in Cooperstown is a far cry from the ramshackle cricket museum at Lord's. Ed Smith's PLAYING HARD BALL paints a two-sided portrait of sports' most illustrous 'hitting games'. Written with the passion and sympathy of a genuine fan, it contains behind-the-scences insights of a professional player.

How long is Playing Hard Ball?

Playing Hard Ball by Ed Smith is 213 pages long, and a total of 53,889 words.

This makes it 72% the length of the average book. It also has 66% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Playing Hard Ball Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 54 minutes to read Playing Hard Ball aloud.

What Reading Level is Playing Hard Ball?

Playing Hard Ball is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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