Books
November, 1993
Why do so many good baseball books appear at World Series time? A. Bartlett Giamatti, the former commissioner of baseball, knew the answer: "As soon as the chill rains come, baseball stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." Now that there's no joy in Mudville, Roger Kahn hits a literary home run, again, in The Era: 1947-1957 (Ticknor & Fields) by tapping into many baseball fans' deepest passion--the 11 seasons when the Yankees, Dodgers and Giants played in New York. As they did in...
