"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 fertile American culture and in which
die-hard unionist baseballers such as Charles Comiskey and Connie
Mack could eventually become the tightfisted avatars of the game's
big-money establishment. It's a celebration of such underdogs as a
rag-armed catcher turned owner named Branch Rickey and a
sure-handed fielder named Curt Flood, both of whom flourished as
true great men of history. But most of all, "Baseball "is a
testament to the unbreakable bond between our nation's pastime and
the fans, who've remained loyal through the fifty-year-long
interdict on black athletes, the Black Sox scandal, franchise
relocation, and the use of performance-enhancing drugs by some
major stars.
Reverent, playful, and filled with Vecsey's charm, "Baseball "begs
to be read in the span of a rain-delayed doubleheader, and so
enjoyable that, like a favorite team's championship run, one hopes
it never ends.
"Vecsey possesses a journalist's eye for detail and a historian's
feel for the sweep of action. His researchis scrupulous and his
writing crisp. This book is an instant classic---- a highly
readable guide to America's great enduring pastime." -- "The
Louisville Courier Journal
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"From the Hardcover edition."
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