The New York Game
Baseball and the Rise of a New City
Published on 5. March 2024
Book
Hardback
528 pages
978-0-375-42183-9 (ISBN)
Description
"A hugely entertaining history of baseball in New York City, bursting with bigger than life figures, and long-forgotten heroes, spanning the game's founding to the early 1940s"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
16PP OF PHOTOGRAPHS
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 48 mm
Weight
814 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-375-42183-9 (9780375421839)
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03/2024
Knopf
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Person
KEVIN BAKER is a novelist, historian, and journalist. He has been a professional writer since the age of 13, working originally for the Gloucester Daily Times as a stringer covering school-boy sports. He is the coauthor of Reggie Jackson's Becoming Mr. October. His work as appeared in Harper’s, where he is also a contributing editor, New York Observer, The New York Times, and The New Republic. He lives in New York City.