Baseball: America's Diamond Mind

By Richard C. Crepeau

A deadly serious game of hide-and-seek is on. The CIA's brilliant young analyst, Jack Ryan, thinks he knows the reason for the sudden Red Fleet operation: the Soviets' most valuable ship, the Red October, is attempting to defect to the United States.The new ballistic-missile submarine's defection is high treason on an unprecedented scale and nearly the entire Soviet Atlantic Fleet has been ordered to find and destroy her at all costs. If the U.S. fleet can locate her first and get her safely to port, it will be the intelligence coup of all time.The nerve-wracking hunt goes on for eighteen days as the Red October tries to elude her hunters across 4000 miles of ocean. The rousing climax is one of the most thrilling underwater scenes ever written.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803264089
• ISBN13: 9780803264083
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.5" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

A Must Read for the Serious Baseball Fan

If you're interested in baseball from an historical perspective, you'll enjoy "America's Diamond Mind". The author presents a compelling social, political and historical account of baseball's impact on society during the post World War I, pre WWII years, when the Babe reached the height of his popularity and the Great Depression consumed much of America's attention. Crepeau's style is easy to read and entertaining, at times transforming the reader back to an era when players played for the love of the game,(and identified with the home team), fans rallied around their local heroes, and baseball gave urban centers a sense of community. The evolution of baseball and American society is discussed in an intimate, entertaining style that is a must read for anyone interested in the Golden Age of Baseball and American society.