Baseball Yesterday & Today

by Josh Leventhal

Baseball's yesterdays add up to more than a list of statistics and records. This is America's game, and in its distant images and shining moments we find something of ourselves-the national past in the national pastime. That past - from its origins as a pastoral game in open country fields to the meeting of historic rivals in historic venues televised across the world - comes alive here in the light of baseball as we know it today.



Side-by-side imagery and stories show readers the game as it is, and as it was, how it has changed, and how, in many ways, it remains forever the same. Vintage photographs and memorabilia set beside modern color action shots illustrate baseball yesterday and today-from the look of a typical major leaguer to the architecture of the ballpark, from the equipment and facilities over the generations to the fan's experience at the game. Informative captions by noted baseball writer and editor Josh Leventhal help tell the story of how the game has changed, and remained the same, over the decades.

Genres: Baseball, Sports

144 pages, Hardcover

First published October 15, 2006

Reviews

[Diz · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is once of those discount coffee table books that you might find on clearance at a Barnes and Nobles. It offers a look at baseball from it's beginnings to today. The "today" of this book is the early 2000s since this was published in 2006, so it has a dated feel to it. The good point of this book is that it contains a lot of photographs and images, and there were a lot of photos from the late 1800s and early 1900s that I haven't seen before. The bad point is that the text is basically fluff. Each two-page spread is devoted to a topic, for example dugouts. The section on on dugouts has four short paragraphs that basically provide some information about the four pictures selected for the page, but the information presented is not very deep.