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A chronicle of the historical 1908 baseball season documents the contributions of numerous personalities who shaped the game, in an account that also explores how the sport was influenced by crooked politics, crime, and everyday Americans.

Collects the best of Red Smith's writings on baseball from the 1940s through 1981.

Nine minor league baseball players, three pitchers, three position players, two managers, and an umpire share their stories of being in limbo, in a league where at any moment they could be called up-- or back-- to the majors.

Through personal interviews with players and owners and more than two decades of research in newspapers and archives. William Marshall tells the full story of one of the most memorable periods in American sports history.

Highlights of the 1908 baseball season from the infamous Fred Merkle boner to the Cubs' last World Series victory.

The complete history of the game.

A compendium of more than one thousand unique baseball lists and records features such marginalia as lead-off home runs that proved to be the only runs of the game and would-be no-hitters that were broken up in extra innings.

In the late 1850s organized baseball was a club-based fraternal sport thriving in the cultures of respectable artisans, clerks and shopkeepers, and middle-class sportsmen. Two decades later it had become an entertainment business run by owners and managers, depending on gate receipts and the increasingly disciplined labor of skilled-player employees. "Playing for Keeps" is an insightful, in-depth account of the game that became America's premier spectator...

"At a time when many baseball fans wish for the game to return to a purer past, G. Edward White shows how seemingly irrational business decisions, inspired in part by the self-interest of the owners but also by their nostalgia for the game, transformed baseball into the national pastime. Not simply a professional sport, baseball has been treated as a focus of childhood rituals and an emblem of American individuality and fair play throughout much of...