 The Baseball Scrapbook: The Players and The Magic of America's National PastimeAuthor: Peter C. Bjarkman
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The Baseball Scrapbook, with its more than 700 rare photographs and information-packed essays and captions, provides a unique evocation of baseball's glorious past and present. More than any other illustrated history, this volume promises to leave you convinced of the truth of pitcher-turned-author Jim Bolton's cogent observation: 'You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.'This scrapbook is not a formal history of baseball, but an attempt to recreate baseball history as it lives in our imaginations. It is a treasure trove of information, but it is not an encyclopedia, both because it makes no pretense of being all-inclusive and because many of the facts it contains are of a kind you could probably never find in an encyclopedia. Though factual, it is also sentimental in that it revels unabashedly in baseball mythology. But, at the same time, it does not turn a blind eye to the fads, follies, and occasional evils that are also a part of baseball's history and of our collective memory. What this book aims to do is not to present the orderly decade-by-decade recital found in usual baseball histories but to concentrate on the game's thematic dimensions, from its most heroic legends to its most engaging trivia, from its winning onfield techniques and strategies to the smell of its ballparks and the look of its scoreboards; it is to explore as fully as possible that 'stadium of the mind.'
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