Biography of Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken, Jr., discussing his childhood, his minor league career, his years in the major leagues, and his 2,131 consecutive games that broke Lou Gehrig's record.
Profiles six novels by twentieth-century North Carolina writer Kaye Gibbons, discussing their plots, characters, settings, themes, and imagery and providing Marxist, cultural, feminist, and psychoanalytic readings.