Baseball A History of America's Favorite Game

Name: Baseball A History of America's Favorite Game
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ISBN: 9780812978704

ISBN-10: 0812978706

ISBN-13: 9780812978704

Edition: 2011

Authors: George Vecsey

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"Football is force and fanatics, basketball is beauty and bounce. Baseball is everything: action, grace, the seasons of our lives. George Vecsey's book proves it, without wasting a word." -Lee Eisenberg, author of "The Number" In "Baseball," one of the great bards of America's Grand Old Game gives a rousing account of the sport, from its pre-Republic roots to the present day. George Vecsey casts a fresh eye on the game, illuminates its foibles and triumphs, and performs a marvelous feat: making a classic story seem refreshingly new. "Baseball" is a narrative of America's can-do spirit, in which stalwart immigrants such as Henry Chadwick could transplant cricket and rounders into the…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/11/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.15" wide x 7.99" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.418
Language: English



Prologue



Six Degrees



Berbers with Bats



The First Entrepreneur



Columbus, Pocahontas, and Doubleday



Growing Pains



The Black Sox



The Babe



Mr. Rickey



The Negro Leagues



Radio Days



War



Jackie Robinson



Baseball Hits the Interstate



Free Agency Arrives



Why the Yankees Exist



The World Catches Up



Same Game, Yuppified



Who's in Charge?



Four Scandals



October Exorcisms


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Bibliography


Notes


Index