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Baseball
George Vecsey

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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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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