Baseball Anecdotes

New York: HarperPerennial, A Division of HarperCollins Publishers, 1990. First Perennial Library edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Very good. x, [2], 356 pages. Cover has slight war and soiling. Preface. Index. A lavish feast of baseball facts and legends from the earlier organized games through 1990. Contents include: The Book of Genesis: From Cartwright's Code to Delahanty's Death; The Early Moderns: From the Founding of the American League to the Corruption of the Black Sox; The Years of Babe Ruth: From Babe's Rise to DiMaggio's Streak; Interlude: Wartime; The Return to Glory: From the Arrival of Jackie Robinson to Casey Stengel's Last Hurrah; and Modern Times: From Gibby and Yaz to the Grounder that ate Bill Buckner. Daniel Okrent (born April 2, 1948) is an American writer and editor. He is best known for having served as the first public editor of The New York Times newspaper, inventing Rotisserie League Baseball, and for writing several books (such as Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, which served as a major source for the 2011 Ken Burns/Lynn Novick miniseries Prohibition). In November 2011, Last Call won the Albert J. Beveridge prize, awarded by the American Historical Association to the year's best book of American history. His most recent book, published May 2019, is The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America. Most of his career has been spent as an editor, at such places as Alfred A. Knopf; Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich; Esquire Magazine; New England Monthly; Life Magazine; and Time, Inc. He was one of the first two people inducted into the Fantasy Sports Hall of Fame. Steven Ira "Steve" Wulf (born December 4, 1950) is an American magazine journalist, editor, and book writer. A former executive editor at ESPN The Magazine, Wulf continues to write for ESPN The Magazine as well as ESPNdotcom. Before joining ESPN, Wulf worked for numerous publications, including The Evening Sun in Norwich, NY, Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly, The Economist, and Time. Wulf left Time to become one of ESPN The Magazine's original editors. Wulf consulted in the making of the documentary television series Baseball, directed by Ken Burns, and has appeared on numerous episodes of ESPN SportsCentury as well as ESPN's 30 for 30 series. Publishers Weekly wrote about this work that ``This history of baseball in anecdotal form contains many familiar stories, but many more that will be new to fans,'' wrote PW. `The book is fun to read, especially when consumed piecemeal.'.