Baseball

A History of America's Favorite Game

George Vecsey

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Modern Library Inc
11 March 2008

Social & cultural history; Baseball

Series: Modern Library Chronicles

""An extraordinary book...stories emerge like bright threads to establish the whole fabric of baseball""

- The Boston Globe

""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

research is 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

By: George Vecsey
Imprint: Modern Library Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 25
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 235g
ISBN: 9780812978704
ISBN 10: 0812978706
Series: Modern Library Chronicles
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 11 March 2008
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

George Vecsey, a sports columnist for The New York Times, has written about such events as the FIFA World Cup and the Olympics but considers baseball, the sport he's covered since 1960, his favorite game. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Loretta Lynn- Coal Miner's Daughter (with Loretta Lynn), which was made into an Academy Award-winning film. He has also served as a national and religion reporter for The New York Times, interviewing the Dalai Lama, Tony Blair, Billy Graham, and a host of other noteworthy figures. He lives in New York with his wife, an artist.