The Games That Changed Baseball: Milestones in Major League History

by John G. Robertson and Andy Saunders

Book Overview

The national pastime's rich history and vast cache of statistics have provided fans and researchers a gold mine of narrative and data since the late 19th century. Many books have been written about Major League Baseball's most famous games. This one takes a different approach, focusing on MLB's most historically significant games. Some will be familiar to baseball scholars, such as the October afternoon in 1961 when Roger Maris eclipsed Babe Ruth's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1476662266
• ISBN13: 9781476662268
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher