“Like a baseball equivalent of Chicago’s Studs Terkel, [Mike] Bryan allowed those intimately involved in the game on various levels to tell their own stories.”— Chicago Sun-Times
A sport, a career, a business, a passion—it’s all baseball, and it’s all in Baseball Lives, the ultimate insider’s account of the national pastime. Every aspect of the game comes alive as fifty-four people, some celebrated, some unknown, talk about the workaday world of the ultimate American sport. From the minors to the majors, from spring training to the world series, Baseball Lives takes a long fly look at the game as you’ve never seen it before. BASEBALL LIVES
SUMMARY BASEBALL LIVES
It took me several years to finally finish. Initially I didn’t appreciate its charm or what it had to offer because I was only interested in reading about the stars. Now at almost 50 I appreciate the little things more. The last chapter about a child card collector could have been me. 0394564677 Full disclosure: I'm in it. But I would think it was a great book anyway. 0394564677 One of the very best books about baseball I've ever read.... 0394564677 I enjoyed playing baseball as a kid, but knew I wouldn't become a pro player. I found I enjoyed watching the minors and the majors, and thought, hey, instead of being a professional player, since that wasn't in the cards, could I work elsewhere in baseball? I found this book was quite interesting in diving into the other jobs out there that kept the work in the game. I appreciated that you got introduced to a number of very different people, in many different jobs. I don't think I'll ever make it in the game, but I think I would have enjoyed working with some of these folks. 0394564677
