The Greatest Game: Our Lifelong Romance with Baseball

Our author Michael Ricci opens our eyes in his blockbuster book about the history of baseball with his The Greatest game: Our lifelong Romance with Baseball by introducing us into unfamiliar subjects like the Blacksox Scandal, the reason for Ty Cobb's monstrous aggressiveness, zaniness of some early baseball players, the unparalleled account of DiMaggio's game-hitting record, Old Hoss Radbourn's one-season 59 pitching win record, the rise and fall of the All-American Girls Baseball League, the first baseball concessionaire, Lou Gehrig's Farewell Address, Babe Ruth's called home run shot, baseball's only fatality, three runners on a base and so many more. Ricci focuses throughout his book about the plight of the ballplayer earlier conceived as being "slaves" to the greedy team owners, and he introduces many new synonyms like his "fence busters" for home runs and "peppered" for a hits-spread, and "rifled" in place of a hit . This exciting book is one that you don't want to put down until you've read the last page