- Miscellanea, Baseball, History, Baseball, history
Provides a history of America's pastime told through memorabilia and other tokens of the sport and its fans, including giant bats and balls, cards, team pennants, cracker jacks, eyeblack, pipe organs, and clogged stadium toilets.
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Warm, nostalgic, plot-driven and cool.
- warmbleak
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Steve Rushin
- First published
- 2013
- Pages
- 343
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Company, Little, Brown and Company
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780316200943
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