The objective of the author, David Craft, was to bring information out in a written form so people like me could learn and enjoy baseball¡¦s past. Craft was very informative of when pro baseball was started and how it came to be the sport it is today. He also included important circumstances and statistics that lead to pinnacle moments in baseball that I have never heard of, and left me astonished after reading them. Some of those great moments and statistics are remarkable even for someone to do it in today¡¦s game of baseball.

The book starts out in 1900 when statistics actually started to be recorded. From 1900-1919 the book talks about how the National League, the only professional league at the time, was full of great pitchers and moderately good batters. It states that the bats that were used then were really heavy and long, thus leading to less homeruns and more strikeouts. One of the best things to happen to baseball was the creating of another professional league, the America

I learned a lot of new things by reading this book. A couple of things that stand out in my mind are one the first home run in World Series history in 1903 by Pittsburgh Pirates right fielder Jimmy Sebring. Another was on May 2, 1917 where Cincinnati Red Read Toney and Chicago Cub Jim Vaughn both threw a no-hitter in the same game. An amazing feat the Joe Adcock of the Milwaukee Braves in 1954, hit four homeruns off of four different pitchers and was a foot short of hitting is fifth in the last inning of the game. There were many things that I learned, but the main point of this book is that professional baseball started in America and has been going strong for more than a 100 years. Every year is full of fun and excitement whether it be a race to break the home-run record in a single season (Mark McGuire- Sammy Sosa- Barry Bonds), or a great world series that goes to the seventh game (Arizona Diamondbacks vs. New York Yankees -2001-) or when a career ends for a legend (Cal Ripken Jr.).

n league, in 1901. This league was actually a minor league called the Western League. A man by the name of Byron Bancroft Johnson, ¡§Ban¡¨, took this minor league, cleaned it up, enticed players from the National league to move over, and ended creating a rival league to the National le

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