Baseball: An Illustrated History, including The Tenth Inning - Softcover

Ward, Geoffrey C.; Burns, Ken; Baker, Kevin

 
9780375711978: Baseball: An Illustrated History, including The Tenth Inning
Softcover
ISBN 10: 037571197X ISBN 13: 9780375711978
Verlag: Knopf, 2010

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The acclaimed companion volume to Ken Burns’s grand-slam PBS documentary—updated and expanded to include the two-part Tenth Inning that looks back on the age of steroids, home-run records, the rise of Latino players, and so much more.

“A rich concoction of narrative, essays, and photos [that] dazzles the eye.... In so many ways you are reminded that rooting for baseball is like breathing.” —The New York Times

With a narrative by Geoffrey C. Ward, a preface to the new edition by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, a new chapter by Kevin Baker, and an introduction by Roger Angell.

Essays by Thomas Boswell, Robert W. Creamer, Gerald Early, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Bill James, David Lamb, Daniel Okrent, John Thorn, George F. Will.

And featuring an interview with Buck O’Neil.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Geoffrey C. Ward is a historian and biographer and the author of fourteen books. He won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1989 and the Francis Parkman Prize in 1990. He is also the winner of five Emmys and two Writers Guild of America awards for his work for public television. He lives in New York City.

Ken Burns’s films include The National Parks, Jazz, Baseball, and The Civil War, which was the highest-rated series in the history of American public television. His work has won numerous prizes, including the Emmy and Peabody Awards, two Academy Award nominations, and a Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award. He lives in Walpole, New Hampshire.

Kevin Baker is the author of the City of Fire trilogy and was the chief historical researcher for Harry Evans’s The American Century.

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Verlag
Knopf
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
037571197X
ISBN 13 
9780375711978
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
592
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