From his perspective as a journalist and a true fan, Bob Costas, NBC’s award-winning broadcaster, shares his views within the forces that are diminishing the selling point of Major League Baseball and proposes realistic changes that may be made to shield and promote the game’s best interests.

With this cogent–and provocative–book, Costas examines the growing financial disparities that have led to nearly two-thirds from the teams in Major League Baseball having virtually no chance of contending for about Fair Ball: A Fan’s Case for Baseball the World Series. He argues that those who run baseball have got missed the key difference between mere change and true progress. And he presents a withering critique of the positions of both the owners and players while offering insights for the wild-card system, the designated-hitter guideline, and interleague perform. Costas answers each issue he cites with an achievable strategy for restoring authentic competition and rescuing followers from the pushes that have diluted the pure joy of the overall game.

Balanced by Costas’s unbridled appreciation for what he telephone calls the “moments of authenticity” that can still make baseball uplifting, Fair Ball offers a vision of our national pastime as possible, a game that keeps its traditional appeal while initiating meaningful shifts that will allow it to thrive in to the next century.