The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City SPITBALL'S 2024 CASEY AWARD WINNER FOR BEST BASEBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR
Language: English
Published by Alfred Knopf, 2024
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Seller: Mike's Baseball Books, Chula Vista, CA, U.S.A.Mike's Baseball Books
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New York City and baseball emerge from the muck of 19th Century American life. Kevin Baker details how the city and baseball came to mirror each other, bumbling through catastrophe and corruption, and rising out of these trials even stronger. First Edition, Third Printing. Both the non price clipped Dust Jacket and the book are in very good condition. I have more than 230 books on the History of Baseball and over 2,400 Baseball Publications in stock. Discounts available when you purchase multiple items on the same order.
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- Title
- The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City SPITBALL'S 2024 CASEY AWARD WINNER FOR BEST BASEBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR
- Author
- Baker, Kevin
- Publisher
- Alfred Knopf
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0375421831
- ISBN 13
- 9780375421839
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 3rd Printing
- Item weight
- 816 grams
- Dimensions
- 16.36 centimeters width by 24.36 centimeters height by 4.5 centimeters depth
- Seller catalogs
- history of baseball
"You're going to beg for extra innings. Without missing a scandal or a sensation, with an eye on how assimilation transforms the picture, Kevin Baker has written a buoyant, double coming-of-age story. "--Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Baseball is "the New York game" because New York is where the diamond was first laid out, where the bunt and the curveball were invented, and where the home run was hit. It's where the game's first stars were born, and where everyone came to play or watch the game. With nuance and depth, historian Kevin Baker brings this all vividly back to life: the still-controversial, indelible moments--Did the Babe call his shot? Was Merkle out? Did they fix the 1919 World Series? Here are all the legendary players, managers, and owners, in all their vivid, complicated humanity, on and off the field.
In Baker's hands the city and the game emerge from the murk of nineteenth-century American life--driven by visionaries and fixers, heroes and gangsters. He details how New York and its favorite sport came to mirror one another, expanding, bumbling through catastrophe and corruption, and rising out of these trials stronger than ever.
From the first innings played in vacant lots and tavern yards in the 1820s; to the canny innovations that created the very first sports league; to the superb Hispanic and Black players who invented their own version of the game when white baseball sought to exclude them. And all amidst New York's own, incredible evolution from a raw, riotous town to a new world city. The New York Game is a riveting, rollicking, brilliant ode to America's beloved pastime and to its indomitable city of origin.
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Mike's Baseball Books
Chula Vista, CA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since April 18, 2001
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