Why Baseball Matters

by Susan Jacoby

Book Overview

A best-selling author and passionate baseball fan takes a tough-minded look at America's most traditional game in our twenty-first-century culture of digital distraction

Baseball, first dubbed the "national pastime" in print in 1856, is the country's most tradition-bound sport. Despite remaining popular and profitable into the twenty-first century, the game is losing young fans, among African Americans and women as well as white men...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300224273
• ISBN13: 9780300224276
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.0"