Chasing Baseball
Our Obsession with Its History, Numbers, People and Places
Dorothy Seymour
Mills
Foreword by Richard C. Crepeau ISBN
978-0-7864-4289-8
13 photos, bibliography, index
266pp.
softcover
2010
Available for immediate shipment
Description
For more than five decades, pioneering researcher Dorothy Seymour Mills has studied and written about baseball’s past. With this groundbreaking book, she turns her attention to the historians, stat hounds, and many thousands of not-so-casual fans whose fascination with the game and its history, like her own, defies easy explanation. As Mills demonstrates, baseball elicits a passion--and inspires a slightly off-kilter, obsessive behavior--that is only slightly less interesting than the people who indulge it.
About the Author
Writer and consultant Dorothy Jane Mills is the author of twenty-four books. The first female historian in the Society for American Baseball Research, she is a member of the Association for Women in Sports Media. She lives in Naples, Florida.
A Library Journal Starred Review
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"a fascinating read that will be especially inspiring for women who love the game"--Library Journal
"each chapter is fascinating and demonstrates beyond any doubt that Harold Seymour left a great deal more behind than his books. Mills was Seymour’s passionate partner, and she continues holding the flame. Eccentric? Yes. Worth reading? Yes. Recommended"--Choice
"a fascinating read that will be especially inspiring for women who love the game"--SABR
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