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A History of America's Favorite Game
Modern Library Chronicles
Modern Library
August 2006
On Sale: August 15, 2006
272 pages
ISBN: 0679643389
EAN: 9780679643388
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
One of the great bards of America’s Grand Old Game gives a
rousing account of baseball, from its pre-Republic roots to
the present day. George Vecsey casts a fresh eye on the
sport, 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 in the
fertile American culture and die-hard unionist baseballers
such as Charles Comiskey and Connie Mack could later 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
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