Play Ball: The Life and Troubled Times of Major League Baseball - Hardcover

Feinstein, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679416188 ISBN 13: 9780679416180

Publisher: Villard, 1993

Synopsis

An inside look at the world of major league baseball draws on interviews with the players, umpires, managers and coaches, owners, and others to discuss behind-the-scenes intrigues, financial manipulations, controversies, and personalities. 75,000 first printing. Tour.

About this title

From Library Journal:

The author of the best-selling account A Season on the Brink ( LJ 11/1/86) now offers a baseball odyssey from the rites of spring training to the World Series. As Feinstein writes, "baseball is a big, brawling, often ugly business. The antipathy many fans now feel toward the people in the game is more than justified." With escalating salaries (one out of seven players earns at least $3 million per year), inflated egos and ticket prices, and owners on probation, the image of the game has been tarnished. Conversely, and the subtitle not-withstanding, the author also looks at what is right with America's national pastime. Human interest stories and humor abound. This book, primarily a documentation of the 1992 major league season, provides an in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at aspects of baseball that fans seldom see. Recommended for public libraries.
- Albert Spencer, Coll. of Education, Univ. of Nevada-Las Vegas
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Villard
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0679416188
• ISBN 13: 9780679416180
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 425