The New York game : baseball and the rise of a new city / Kevin Baker.
"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."-- Penguin Random House.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780375421839
- ISBN: 0375421831
- Physical Description: ix, 511 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, photographs ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.
- Copyright: ©2024
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [481]-492) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Origins -- The inside game, 1901-1919 -- The Babe in nighttown, 1920-1929 -- The virtuous city: New York in the Great Depression, 1929-1939 -- singing in the dark: the city in time of war, 1939-1945.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Old Fort Branch Library | 796.357 BAK (Text) | 37810438163197 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
