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The Games That Changed Baseball: Milestones in Major League History
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The Games That Changed Baseball: Milestones in Major League History Paperback - 2016

by John G. Robertson; Andy Saunders


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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 single-season home run record, or the compelling sixth game of the 1975 World Series. Other fascinating games are less well known: the day at the Polo Grounds in 1921, when a fan named Reuben Berman filed a lawsuit against the New York Giants, winning fans the right to keep balls hit into the stands; the first televised broadcast of an MLB game in 1939; opening night of the Houston Astrodome in 1965, when spectators no longer had to be taken out to the ballgame; or the spectator-less April 2015 Orioles-White Sox game, played in an empty stadium in the wake of the Baltimore riots. Each game is listed in chronological order, with detailed historical background and a box score.

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  • Title The Games That Changed Baseball: Milestones in Major League History
  • Author John G. Robertson; Andy Saunders
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 276
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McFarland & Company
  • Date 2016-06-14
  • ISBN 9781476662268 / 1476662266
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.7 in (25.15 x 17.53 x 1.78 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Baseball - United States - History, Major League Baseball (Organization) -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016020386
  • Dewey Decimal Code 796.357

About the author

John G. Robertson is a private tutor and sports historian who lives in Cambridge, Ontario. He is the author of numerous books on baseball, hockey and boxing history. Andy Saunders is a baseball buff who hosts trivia shows in his hometown. He lives in Guelph, Ontario.
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