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The only book ever to win both the Seymour Medal and the Casey Award as the best baseball book of the year, Peter Morris's magisterial encyclopedia of the national pastime will surprise, delight, and educate even the most knowledgeable fan. With its thousand-odd entries, A Game of Inches illuminates the origins of items ranging from catcher's masks to hook slides to intentional walks to baseball's reserve clause. Now with new material and completely redesigned in a one-volume paperback, the book remains endlessly fascinating, impeccably researched, and engagingly written.
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Peter Morris, one of the foremost historians of early baseball in America, has also written Catcher, But Didn't We Have Fun?, Level Playing Fields, and Baseball Fever. A former national and international Scrabble champion, he lives in Haslett, Michigan.
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...the book is simply enthralling, and amounts to a history of the game and its place in American society refracted through innumerable unlikely lenses. Morris is attentive to the rich and intricate context--cultural, social, and economic--of every innovation from playing fields to broadcasts, from technique to equipment, and would seem to relish the hunt as much as the quarry. He is also a virtuoso of period quotation, bringing us joy in the mock-heroic cadences and flowery bombast of sportswriters of yore, whose plentitude and variety remind us that this was once a nation of newspapers and that baseball was spread as much through their pages as on the field. --Katherine Powers, Boston Globe
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- PublisherIvan R. Dee
- Publication date2010
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