Baseball
A History of America's Game

It’s hard to imagine someone doing a better job of detailing the entire first 150 years of baseball history in 250 pages. Even as a lifetime baseball fan there was a lot that I learned for the first time. That said it’s not without its flaws and the fact that it’s from 2000 leaves a lot to be desire......more

Terrible and inaccurate depiction of the AAGPBL.......more

Benjamin Rader, now a professor emeritus at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln history department, has delivered the best one volume account of baseball's history in its entirety that I have ever read. Starting with the first teams in the 1840s, he tells the stories of the most famous players and te......more

The first edition of Rader's Baseball: A History of America's Game was probably the best. It was a succinct summary of the game and he made solid decisions on the sequence of events that framed the overall narrative. Over time, he has introduced two new editions that essentially have served as updat......more

Solid, if a bit plodding.......more