For Father's Day and the baseball season: This Gilded Age adventure of a great showman, an extraordinary voyage, and 19th century baseball could well be titled

Inspired and led by sporting magnate Albert Goodwill Spalding, two teams of baseball players circled the globe for six months in 1888-1889 competing in such far

This book is in great demand by baseball enthusiasts. Having been connected with every department of the game from player to magnate, Mr. Spalding has contribut

Explains the accomplishments of US leadership and the pitfalls the nation encountered due to the tensions between realpolitik and liberal ideology. Through the

Is the face of American baseball throughout the world that of goodwill ambassador or ugly American? Has baseball crafted its own image or instead been at the me