Originally published in 1999, Daniel Paisner's THE BALL: Mark
McGwire's 70th Home Run Ball and the Marketing of the American
Dream was hailed as "one of the great quirky masterpieces of
baseball journalism" by the editors of Sportsjones.com, and named
an Amazon.com "Top Ten Sports Book of the Year." THE BALL is a
wistful parable about our national pastime. It chronicles the
distinctly American path of Mark McGwire's record-setting
seventieth home run ball—from the moment it was stitched in a
Rawlings factory in Costa Rica and shipped (eventually) to St.
Louis; to the moment it left the hands of Montreal rookie hurler
Carl Pavano and collided with McGwire's "Big Stick" bat; to the
moment it was "caught" by a researcher working on the heralded
Human Genome Research Project; to the moment it was won at auction
for $3.08 million dollars by a comic-book maven. Shot through with
colorful characters, high drama and rich baseball history, it is
must-reading for anyone interested in what drove our various
marketplaces—and collective fantasies—at the end of the
twentieth century. As baseball fans commemorate the twentieth
anniversary of the historic home run race of 1998, they look back
as well to a more innocent time in the game—a time before the
taint of steroids and the reliance on sabermetrics that has
transformed the way the game is played and the way it is
remembered.
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