Skip to main content
Esquire Classic
Issues
Topics
Contributors
Sign In
Subscribe
FICTION
A Different Ball Game
In the hopeless game with Mother, a new way of losing can seem like winning
December
1
1969
Bruce Jay Friedman
A Different Ball Game
Bruce Jay Friedman
December
1
1969
View Article Pages
FICTION
A Different Ball Game
In the hopeless game with Mother, a new way of losing can seem like winning
December
1
1969
Bruce Jay Friedman
Sign In to read this article
Get instant access to 85+ years of Esquire.
Subscribe Now!
Exclusive & Unlimited access to
Esquire Classic - The Official Esquire Archive
Every issue Esquire has ever published, since 1933
Every timeless feature, profile, interview, novella - even the ads!
85+ Years of outstanding fiction from world-renowned authors
More than 150,000 Images — beautiful High-Resolution photography, zoom into every page
Unlimited Search and Browse
Bookmark all your favorites into custom Collections
Enjoy on Desktop, Tablet, and Mobile
View Full Issue
More From This Issue
ARTICLES
The New Yellow Peril
December
1969
By
Tom Wolfe
NOEL, NOEL
And Now That the American Dream Is Safely in the Hands of the Military-Industrial Establishment, We Wake to a New Decade
December
1969
By
Senator George McGovern
NOEL, NOEL
The New Aesthetics of Sex
December
1969
NOEL, NOEL
The New Homosexuality
December
1969
By
Tom Burke
NOEL, NOEL
Countdown for Small Towns
December
1969
By
Oscar Newman
NOEL, NOEL
Blessed Are the Peacemakers
December
1969
Unlock every article Esquire has ever published.
Subscribe Now!
Exclusive & Unlimited access to
every timeless profile, interview, short story, feature, advertisement
, and much more!
More From This Issue
ARTICLES
The New Yellow Peril
December
1969
By
Tom Wolfe
NOEL, NOEL
And Now That the American Dream Is Safely in the Hands of the Military-Industrial Establishment, We Wake to a New Decade
December
1969
By
Senator George McGovern
NOEL, NOEL
The New Aesthetics of Sex
December
1969
Fiction
FICTION
BLOODSHED
JANUARY 1976
By
Cynthia Ozick
SEMI-FICTION
Quick Curtain at Drury Lane
DECEMBER 1945
By
DOUGLAS AINSLIE
Fathers
The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams
JUNE 1999
By
Nasdijj
Bruce Jay Friedman
FEATURES
The Imposing Proportions of Jean Shrimpton
April 1965
By
Bruce Jay Friedman
FICTION
The Scientist
APRIL 1967
By
Bruce Jay Friedman
FEATURES
Look, Mao, I’m Dancing!
APRIL 1972
By
Bruce Jay Friedman
Fiction
FICTION
A Second Career
JANUARY 1967
By
Donald Harington
FICTION
Growing Old
JULY 1976
By
Jonathan Baumbach
Fiction
Straight Fiction
DECEMBER 1995
By
Martin Amis
Get instant access to 85+ years of Esquire.
Subscribe Now!
Exclusive & Unlimited access to
Esquire Classic
Everything Esquire has ever published