Baseball, the perfect game
Subtitle: an all-star anthology celebrating the game's greatest players, teams, and moments
By: Josh Leventhal, editor
Contributors: Leventhal, Josh, 1971-
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Stillwater, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Baseball -- United States -- Anecdotes; Baseball -- United States -- History
Genres: Anecdotes
Description: A survey of baseball history, using memoirs, essays, news accounts, pictorial art and fiction.
Notes: Includes index
Table of contents: title: The national game; title: The origins of baseball; title: Opening day / by Jim Brosnan; title: The collector: J.R. Burdick and the world of baseball cards / by Mark Lamster; title: Dynasties, more than just those damn Yankees / by Gary Gillette and Pete Palmer; title: The Red Stockings, baseball's first professional team; title: The Black Sox scandal / by Eliot Asinof; title: 1941, an unmatchable summer / by Ray Robinson; title: Next year arrives, the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers / by Doris Kearns Goodwin; title: 1975 World Series / by Bill Lee; title: The greatest World Series / by Josh Leventhal; title: 1998: the year that baseball came back ... / by Alan Schwarz; title: The greatest rivalry, Yankees vs. Red Sox / by Harvey Frommer; title: Pennant madness and a boy grows up / by Ty Cobb; title: Christy Mathewson, gentleman Giant / by Eric Rolfe; title: Revolution in baseball, Ruth reaches New York / by Robert Creamer; title: The last immortals, Stan Musial and Bob Feller / by Marty Appel; title: Satchel gets his start / by Leroy "Satchel" Paige; title: A lone Negro in the game / by Jules Tygiel; title: What is so rare as a Willie Mays? / by Tallulah Bankhead; title: Perfection, the dominance of Sandy Koufax / by Jane Leavy; title: Final twist of the drama, Hank Aaron, home run king / by George Plimpton; title: Distance, the elusive Bob Gibson / by Roger Angell; title: The education of Sammy Sosa / by Tom Verducci; title: Barry Bonds, is he the greatest ever? / by John Thornby