Vince Staten

I thought that this was a great book; but then I'm a baseball fan, so I may be biased. Staten discusses what may be described as "baseball origins" in the context of a 2002 game between the Florida Marlins and the Cincinnati Reds at what was once called Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati, OH. It was interesting to read about how gloves, turnstiles and baseballs are made and how they evolved over time. I didn't know, for example, that "Take Me Out to the Ball Game", that seventh-inning stretch tradition, was originally part of a story about a guy and his girl discussing where to go on a date. There's a lot of interesting facts about baseball in this book's 290 pages.… (altro)