“BASEBALL: An Illustrated History” it is a companion volume to Ken Burns’s magnificent PBS television series – updated and expanded to coincide with the broadcast of a new, two-part Tenth Inning.

The authors of the acclaimed and best-selling The Civil War, Jazz, and The War turn to another uniquely American phenomenon: baseball. A magnificent, exhaustively researched chronicle in words and pictures of nation’s pastime, and how it came to be what it is.

Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns’s moving and fascinating history of the game goes beyond stolen bases, double plays, and home runs to demonstrate how baseball has been influenced by, and has in turn influenced, American life: politics, race, labor, big business, advertising, social custom, literature, art, and morality. The book covers every milestone of the game: from the rules to the eight-month players’ strike of 1994; from the 1924 Negro World Series to Jack Roosevelt Robinson’s major-league debut. This new edition brings the authors’ monumental work into the twenty-first century: steroids, home-run records, the rise of Latino players, the long-awaited Red Sox World Series victory, and so much more.

Ten essays by notable baseball enthusiasts, exploring their individual preoccupations with the game, complement this sweeping narrative. And a wealth of pictures document baseball’s evolution since the mid-nineteenth century and bring to life its most memorable figures.

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