New York: Gallery Books, 1986. First Printing thus [stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 9.5 inches by 12.25 inches. 192 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (some in color), Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Contents include: The Beginnings of the American League; The House that Ruth Built; Heroes of the Depression; The Fighting Forties; The Fabled Fifties; The Sensational Sixties; The Seditious Seventies, and the Unsettled Eighties. Traces the history of the American League from its early years to the present day, highlighting the famous plays, crucial games, and memorable personalities of league baseball. Zoss' professional life has always balanced between prose and music, sometimes weighted heavily to one or the other, as during the 1980s into the 1990s, when he authored or co-authored over twenty five nonfiction books. Zoss has won several awards for his prose and is an International PEN short story award winner and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow of Creative Writing. These included, with historian John S. Bowman, Diamonds in the Rough, cited by The New York Times as one of the 50 greatest baseball books of all times. Since 1964 John D. Bowman has been a freelance editor and writer. More

New York: Gallery Books, 1986. First Printing thus [stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 9.5 inches by 12.25 inches. 192 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (some in color), Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Contents include: In the Beginning; The Modern Game; The League Takes to the Air; Innovation and Upheaval; Dodger Dynasty; The Unpredictable Decade; Untraditional Seventies; and Mounting Figures of the 1980's. A history of the oldest surviving professional sports league describes how baseball has been shaped by war, television, agents, airplanes, and, especially, players and includes important achievements by noted figures. Traces the history of the National League from its early years to the present day, highlighting the famous plays, crucial games, and memorable personalities of league baseball. An informal but informative survey, with more than 200 illustrations that allow everyone to relive the great days of America's senior league. Zoss' professional life has always balanced between prose and music, sometimes weighted heavily to one or the other, as during the 1980s into the 1990s, when he authored or co-authored over twenty five nonfiction books. Zoss has won several awards for his prose and is an International PEN short story award winner and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow of Creative Writing. These included, with historian John S. Bowman, Diamonds in the Rough, cited by The New York Times as one of the 50 greatest baseball books of all times. Since 1964 John D. Bowman has been a freelance editor and writer. More