Best-selling author George Vecsey is an esteemed and award-winning sports activities journalist for the New York Situations. In Baseball, he recounts the annals of America’s nationwide pastime. Baseball ‘s been around in a variety of forms for thousands of years, but in the last 200 years it has become an American organization. Developing from a sport performed in open fields and in big town streets, baseball offers seen its share of innovators and detractors, heroes and villains. Vecsey information them all from the about Football: A History of America’s Favorite Video game scandalous Black Sox of 1919 and contemporary steroid abusers to symbols like Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, and a variety of underdogs that arrived of nowhere to capture the imaginations of enthusiasts everywhere. As with each Contemporary Library Chronicle, Vecsey’s Football is definitely a concise background filled with information and stories that may appeal to first year and veteran enthusiasts alike. Narrator Alan Nebelthau’s warm tone of voice punctuates all of the wit and appeal of Vecsey’s prose. Baseball: A BRIEF HISTORY of America’s Favorite Game is an invitation to [Vecsey’s] house for Sunday dinner. The pace is usually more calm, the meal much larger, the result as beautiful as you suspected it might be.-Leigh Montville