What I’m Reading: The Old Ball Game

The Old Ball Game, by Frank Deford, is actually a re-read for me. I read it when it first came out in 2005 and remembered it as a delightful and informative book about the New York Giants in the early 1900s, focusing on their manager, John McGraw, and their star pitcher, Christy Mathewson. But after I read Where They Ain’t, by Burt Solomon, a couple years ago, which is about the 1890s Baltimore Orioles and their star player John McGraw, I wanted to come back to this one. Indeed, the two books ma...