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Baseball - 9780812978704
Un libro in lingua di George Vecsey edito da Modern Library, 2008
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“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
From the Hardcover edition.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Baseball
- Sottotitolo: A History of America's Favorite Game
- Lingua: English
- Autore: George Vecsey
- Editore: Modern Library
- Collana: Modern Library (Paperback)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 11 Marzo '08
- Genere: SPORTS and RECREATION
- Argomenti : Baseball United States History
- Pagine: 252
- Dimensioni mm: 196 x 127 x 19
- ISBN-10: 0812978706
- EAN-13: 9780812978704