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WHO INVENTED THE GAME?Written with Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns Alfred A. Knopf • 1994 • (OP) ISBN 0-679-86750-3 • 80 pages • Ages 8 and up • Based on the Public Television Series BASEBALL: The American Epic • NCSS-CBC Notable Children’s Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies. . . . a small masterpiece . . . condenses the history of the national pastime into 80 pages, dispensing of the title question in the first two. A graceful writer, Walker moves seamlessly from the 1845 Knickerbockers to the Black Sox scandal to the new Dodgers stadium in Los Angeles; from Candy Cummings to Ty Cobb to Babe Ruth to Satchel Paige to Roger Maris. The book tracks Burns’ documentary inning by inning, providing a look at baseball without whitewash or excess glorification. Yes, it was grand, but it was also sordid and racist and sometimes corrupt. —San Diego Union-Tribune |
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