MR. WILSON'S BOOKSHELF
A Game of Brawl
Plus: The Sixties, Revisited, continued.
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Like many amateur baseball historians, Felber—executive editor of the Manhattan Mercury in Kansas—is painstaking to a fault. He tracks down every detail and seeks to verify every anecdote he passes on. But even if you don't absorb all the minutia, you'll come away with a vivid picture of "baseball as she was played" (to adapt Baltimore manager Ned Hanlon's phrase) more than a century ago. Much has changed in professional baseball since then; much remains the same. If this bit of time–travel doesn't enhance your enjoyment of the 2007 Series, I'll be very much surprised.
John Wilson is the editor of Books & Culture.
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