Review — New Respect for Baseball Titles

<p><span style=”color: #000000;”>This review appeared in <em>ForeWord Magazine</em>, May/June 2003.</span></p>

<p><span style=”color: #000000;”>Ever since academicians and historians such as Harold Seymour, David Q. Voigt, and Jules Tygiel began to make &quot;serious&quot; examinations of the national p</span><a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=211,height=300,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/0786412720.jpg”><span style=”color: #000000;”><img title=”0786412720″ height=”213″ alt=”0786412720″ src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/0786412720.jpg” width=”150″ border=”0″ style=”FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px” /></span></a><span style=”color: #000000;”>astime, baseball has received a newfound respect from a new generation of readers. Heretofore, sports books were relegated almost exclusively to juvenile literature with heroes like Babe Ruth or Dizzy Dean overcoming adversity to attain stardom. Through the writings of Seymour and company, we see now that baseball is much more than just an athletic endeavor. It is a microcosm of life, its impact spanning numerous disciplines. Sociology, economics, music, and the media are but a few of the subcategories that baseball touches.</span></p>

<p><a href=”http://www.forewordmagazine.net/articles/printarticles.aspx?articleid=21″><span style=”color: #000000;”>Read the full review from <em>ForeWord Magazine</em></span></a><span style=”color: #000000;”>.</span></p>

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