Playing Hardball

by David Whitford

Book Overview

A behind-the-scenes look at major league baseball's expansion teams, the Denver Rockies and the Miami Marlins, Playing Hardball is the story of how two cities beat out four others to earn the right to call themselves big league. Whitford looks at the building of a franchise from the ground up and explores the larger questions facing baseball today.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385422822
• ISBN13: 9780385422826
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"