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"Baseball An Illustrated History" by Geoffrey Ward and Ken Burns is the
companion book to the Ken Burns PBS
series about baseball. This large 9 by
11 inch coffee table book features
more than 500 historic photos. An
illustration documentation of the
history of baseball and it's effect on
the American way of life. A history
that goes beyond stolen bases, triple
plays, and home runs to demonstrate how
baseball has been influenced by, and
has in turn influenced our national
life: politics, race, labor, big
business, advertising, and social
custom.
"...Our beloved national pastime woven so deeply into our lives that
it provides common ground for young and
old, black and white, North, South,
East, West-for taxi driver and
schoolteacher and president of the
United States."
"During eight months of the year, it is
played professionally every day; all
year round, amateurs play it, watch it,
and dream about it. Baseball produces
remarkable Americans: it seizes hold of
ordinary people and shapes them into
something we must regard with awe. Babe
Ruth, Jackie Robinson, Joe DiMaggio . .
. truly gifted human beings acting out
universal fantasies that, for whatever
reason, are most perfectly expressed on
a baseball field."
The dust jacket, covering the red book, pictures a civil war era baseball
team. The back pictures; Willie Mays of
the New York Giants dives into home
plate safely, Jackie Robinson sliding
home, tagged out by Rube Walker, St.
Louis Cardinals Don Gutteridge sliding
home in 1939, AAGPBL Vivian Kellog
reaches for ball, Marg Callaghan slides
into home plate as umpire Norris Ward
watches.
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