A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball: The Game on the Field, Volume 1 - Softcover

 
9781566638531: A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball: The Game on the Field, Volume 1

Synopsis

The only book ever to win both the Seymour Medal and the Casey Award as the best baseball book of the year, Peter Morris's magisterial encyclopedia of the national pastime will surprise, delight, and educate even the most knowledgeable fan. With its thousand-odd entries, A Game of Inches illuminates the origins of items ranging from catcher's masks to hook slides to intentional walks to baseball's reserve clause. Now with new material and completely redesigned in a one-volume paperback, the book remains endlessly fascinating, impeccably researched, and engagingly written.

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About the Author

Peter Morris won the coveted Seymour Medal of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) for his book Baseball Fever, about early baseball in Michigan. He has also been honored by USA Today Sports Weekly. A graduate of the University of Toronto and Michigan State University and a former national and international Scrabble champion, he is now a researcher at the Michigan Public Health Institute and lives in Haslett, Michigan. Visit the author's website (www.petermorrisbooks.com) for more information.

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9781566636773: A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball: The Game on the Field, Volume 1

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ISBN 10:  1566636779 ISBN 13:  9781566636773
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee (UK), 2006
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