THE GAME’S INFLUENCE
ON AMERICA
What does baseball mean to you?
This commemorative book spotlights the fans and reinforces the game’s historical status as our national pastime.
You’ll fall in love with baseball again and share the passions and dreams illustrated in 150+ fan stories.
Buy your copy of My Baseball Story today!
THERE IS SOME BASEBALL IN ALL OF US
Whether you’ve played the game for years or hardly know the game, baseball is about life. Its essence overlaps with so much of our daily rhythms. Requiring diligent preparation and sound judgment, yet rewarding creativity and spontaneity, and laden with tradition and respect for the past, baseball is as unpredictable as life itself. Like life, there are no clocks to mark the end. The game is finished when it is finished.
As a result of its hallowed status in our culture, baseball has seeped into all of us to varying degrees. And that is just what My Baseball Story: The Game’s Influence On America is about: the stories and portraits of how baseball transcends the field and affects lives.
quotes from our authors
“For my seventh birthday, my father surprised me with tickets to a Brooklyn Dodgers game. I crossed off each date on my Mickey Mouse calendar until the Wednesday night game in June finally arrived. As my father drove to Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, I sat next to him in the front seat of our Buick convertible shaking with excitement, tightly squeezing my Dodger cards in their blue rubber band.”
— MARA KURTZ
“Sure enough, on a 2-2 pitch, Roberto Clemente lifted a deep fly to center and Willie, probably anxious to hit the clubhouse for a hot shower, gloved it easily. “Hey, Willie throw me the ball,” Buddy bellowed. Willie obliged, but the ball soared over our heads (we were right up against the cyclone fence) and bounced a couple of rows back off the wooden bleachers.”
— BILL KLINK
“You hear players today talk about needing a short memory to play this game. I didn’t know it at the time, but I was learning this lesson, as we could never beat the teams from the other side of the tracks. We came close one game but still lost. I went home and cried like a baby, but I was back at practice the next day, trying to get better, a pretty good life lesson.”
— TONY BORREGO
PREVIOUS WORKS BY NICK DEL CALZO
The Triumphant SpiriT
Award winner featured on CBS Sunday Morning Show and CNN book of the week.
Medal of Honor Book
New York Times Best Seller
and Award Winner.
Wings of Valor
Honoring America’s Fighter Aces.
Published by the Naval Institute Press.