Baseball
A History of America's Favorite Game

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, though it's a bit scattered in it's approach. Of course, considering Vescey is trying to hit the highlights of roughly 130 years of baseball history I'd say he did a pretty specatular job taking the subject on. He's been a sports writer for the NY Times since the 50's......more

This book was a nice companion to Ken Burns's Baseball series, which I recently watched. The author uses some of the same illustrations of baseball's changes and highlights some of the same personalities. This text provides something like a 30,000 foot view that doesn't get too bogged down in detail......more

A good book for a satellite view of American baseball from the 1800s to mid-2000s. Glossed over the major highlights of how the game developed over the years, including stats (dude who developed K for strikeouts used it because he said the letter K stood out against the other letters in the word and......more

Personal Response I liked the book Baseball . Baseball is one of my three favorite sports, but it is the one I know least about. I don't know much about the old time players of baseball or how the game started. This book covers lots of pre-21st century baseball. It talks about who created the game,......more

I picked up this book because I visited the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown on Wed and wanted to be absolutely insufferable with facts about the game. (Book or not, I knew I'd be insufferable at the Hall -- at least with a little pre-reading, at least I could be informed...) I wanted to read Coo......more