Baseball. America's pastime. No other game has such a rich, compelling, and often eerie history. With this collection of essays, you'll dive deeper than the box scores and see how the game includes so many other things. Miraculous bounces, long-forgotten pitching duels, unintended prophecies, and irreproducible performances. Take a walk down hardball memory lane and examine some intriguing episodes of our game's extraordinary past: - Has there ever been such a thing as a perfect perfect game? - What happened with the mysterious final out of the 1926 World Series? - Did the Chicago White Sox lose the 1919 World Series, or did the Cincinnati Reds win? - Who really played the first professional night game at Wrigley Field? - Is Field of Dreams even a "baseball movie? and much more. Play Ball
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