<p>Selected as one of baseball literature's Golden Dozen by Roger Kahn, <i>Man on Spikes</i> is an uncompromisingly realistic novel about a baseball player who struggles through sixteen years of personal crises and professional ordeals before finally appearing in a major league game. In a preface to this new edition, Eliot Asinof reveals the longsuffering ballplayer and friend upon which the novel is based.<br></p><p></p><p></p><p> </p> <p></p>