The incredible inside story of power, money, and baseball’s last twenty years

In the fall of 1992, America’s National Pastime is in crisis and already on the path to the unthinkable: cancelling a World Series for the first time ever sold. The owners are in war with each other, their decades-long struggle with the players provides switched America against both edges, and the players’ developing addiction to steroids will threaten the game’s extremely foundation.

It really is a tipping point for baseball, an essential about The Game: Inside the Key World of Major League Baseball’s Power Brokers second in the game’s history that catalyzes a struggle for power by 3 strong-willed men: Commissioner Bud Selig, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, and union leader Don Fehr. It’s their uneasy alliance by the end of decades of struggle that pulls the overall game back from your brink and becomes it into a money-making powerhouse that enriches all of them.

This is actually the real story of baseball, played out against a tableau of stunning athletic feats, high-stakes public battles, and backroom political deals–with a supporting cast that includes Barry Bonds and Tag McGwire, Joe Torre and Derek Jeter, George Bush and George Mitchell, and so many more.

Drawing from hundreds of extensive, exclusive interviews throughout baseball, The Game is a sensational achievement: a rigorously reported book and the must-read, fly-on-the-wall, definitive accounts of how a massive struggle for power transforms disaster into baseball’s Golden Age.