The Golden Game: The Story of California Baseball - Softcover

Nelson, Kevin

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9781890771805: The Golden Game: The Story of California Baseball

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1890771805 ISBN 13: 9781890771805

Publisher: Heyday Books, 2004

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This is a rich, beautifully written, beautifully illustrated history of California baseball from its origins in the Gold Rush in the 1850s to the arrival of the major leagues a century later with the coming of the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers and later, the Angels, Athletics and Padres.
California’ has a unique role in baseball, producing more current major leaguers than any other state. Its history includes many national personalities well known to baseball fans: Jackie Robinson, Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Casey Stengel, Billy Martin, Walter Johnson, and many more. Their stories are all told in The Golden Game, as well as the stories of the Pacific Coast League, the Japanese-American baseball experience in the state, the origins of the classic baseball poem, "Casey at the Bat," and much, much more.

An excellent, absorbing read for anyone who loves America's game.

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Featured on NBC's "The Today Show" and National Public Radio.

The book that spawned Governor Schwarzenegger to announce September "California Baseball History Month."

From the Author:

Honestly--and I don't mean to toot my own here; well okay, a little--there really is no other book quite like this. California is unique in that the state developed roughly at the same time as baseball itself. Alexander Cartwright, one of the game's early founders, came to California during the Gold Rush. The Cincinnati Red Stockings, baseball's first professional team, barnstormed the state after coming here on the Transcontinental Railroad, the monumental nation-building enterprise constructed after the Civil War. So when you tell the California baseball story, as I did here, you are telling in many respects the national baseball story. Even if you don't live in (or even like) California, if you love baseball, you'll enjoy this book.

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