Advanced
Error loading page.
Try refreshing the page. If that doesn't work, there may be a network issue, and you can use our self test page to see what's preventing the page from loading.
Learn more about possible network issues or contact support for more help.
Title details for Play Ball by John Feinstein - Available

Play Ball

The Life and Troubled Times of Major League Baseball

by John Feinstein
ebook
1 of 2 copies available
Borrow Read a sample Read a sample
1 of 2 copies available
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Season Inside presents a thoroughly entertaining and deeply reflective examination of America’s greatest sport: baseball.
What makes baseball what it is—the good as well as the bad? Who are the game’s heroes, and who its villains? What roles do managers play, and umpires and announcers and mascots and the media? What is the game’s future?
To answer these questions, renowned sports journalist John Feinstein spent an entire season examining the game from the inside. He had access to general managers, who gave him never-before-revealed information on trades and the maneuverings behind these trades. He looks at managers to examine strategy and the psychology of success; he shows the frustrating decline of a once-great franchise. Feinstein answers questions about escalating salaries, reveals the identities of the real controlling forces in the game, explains why the owners so totally despised commissioner Fay Vincent, and graphically illustrates the financial state of the game as well as the pressures, the politics, and the joys that come with playing, managing, negotiating, and simply surviving a 162-game season.
Beyond the obsession with money and salaries, Feinstein knows it’s the players who make and break the game. In Play Ball, we hear stories of how they were shaped; see how stardom—or lack of stardom—further shapes them; we finally understand what it means to be a major league baseball player, in every possible sense.

  • Creators

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    September 14, 2011

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780307800947

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9780307800947
      • File size: 2639 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      May 1, 1993
      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 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

Formats

  • Kindle Book
  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Loading
Check out what's being checked out right now