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Mar 16, 2024 · In his book “The New York Game,” Kevin Baker tells the origin story of the sport we know today. Babe Ruth and Jacob Ruppert, the owner of the Yankees, in 1930, after Ruth agreed to sign a ...
- A Sense of Time Wasted (Productively ... - The New York Times
Oct. 31, 2024. Can you redeem wasted time by making art out...
- A Sense of Time Wasted (Productively ... - The New York Times
Here are all the legendary players, managers, and owners, in all their vivid, complicated humanity, on and off the field. In Baker’s hands the city and the game emerge from the murk of nineteenth-century American life—driven by visionaries and fixers, heroes and gangsters.
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2 days ago · NYT Critic’s Pick. PG-13. Action, Drama, History, War. Directed by Steve McQueen. Steve McQueen’s World War II drama may appear conventional on the surface, but don’t miss what it’s really doing....
Mar 5, 2024 · The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A hugely entertaining history of baseball and New York City, bursting with larger-than-life figures and fascinating stories from the game’s beginnings to the end of World War II.
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3 days ago · Oct. 31, 2024. Can you redeem wasted time by making art out of it? That’s the question the Belgian cartoonist Olivier Schrauwen asks in SUNDAY (Fantagraphics, 474 pp., $39.99), an enormous ...
Mar 5, 2024 · Tracing the evolution of the game’s rules, tactics (including the development of the curveball), and professional standards, Baker introduces readers to the motley crew of New York hustlers, scalawags, and dreamers who made baseball such a popular and compelling game.
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Mar 5, 2024 · A brilliant writer makes a convincing case that New York City is, and always has been, the center of the baseball universe. The concept of this book—the intertwined history of baseball in New York City from its origins to the mid-1940s—seems overly ambitious.
