A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball - Softcover

 
9781566638531: A Game of Inches: The Stories Behind the Innovations That Shaped Baseball

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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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Baseball historian Peter Morris is a two-time winner of the Seymour Medal for best baseball book of the year and was an inaugural winner of the Henry Chadwick Award for lifetime achievement in baseball research. He lives in Haslett, Michigan.

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ISBN 10:  1566636779 ISBN 13:  9781566636773
Verlag: Ivan R Dee, Inc, 2006
Hardcover