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The Golden Game presents in words and pictures 150 years of baseball history, from sandlot ball in the 1850s and the Pacific Coast League to the western arrival of the Dodgers, Giants, Angels, Athletics, and Padres. Here is a stirring, colorfully written narrative about the state that has been the birthplace and proving ground for more Major Leaguers than any other, including Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, and Jackie Robinson. Blending U.S. and California history as a backdrop to a narrative rich with anecdotes, The Golden Game reveals the significant impact that California has had on baseball history.
Written not just for Californians but for all baseball fans, The Golden Game goes beyond its geographic boundaries to tell the fascinating saga of California baseball and how it has indelibly shaped the national pastime.
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Featured on NBC's "The Today Show" and National Public Radio.
The book that spawned Governor Schwarzenegger to announce September "California Baseball History Month."
From the Author
Honestly--and I don't mean to toot my own here; well okay, a little--there really is no other book quite like this. California is unique in that the state developed roughly at the same time as baseball itself. Alexander Cartwright, one of the game's early founders, came to California during the Gold Rush. The Cincinnati Red Stockings, baseball's first professional team, barnstormed the state after coming here on the Transcontinental Railroad, the monumental nation-building enterprise constructed after the Civil War. So when you tell the California baseball story, as I did here, you are telling in many respects the national baseball story. Even if you don't live in (or even like) California, if you love baseball, you'll enjoy this book.
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- PublisherBison Books
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 0803283954
- ISBN 13 9780803283954
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages456
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