Baseball Lives: Men and Women of the Game Talk about Their Jobs, Their Lives, and the National Pastime

“Like a baseball equivalent of Chicago’s Studs Terkel, [Mike] Bryan allowed those intimately involved in the game on various levels to tell their own stories.”—Chicago Sun-Times
 
A sport, a career, a business, a passion—it’s all baseball, and it’s all in Baseball Lives, the ultimate insider’s account of the national pastime. Every aspect of the game comes alive as fifty-four people, some celebrated, some unknown, talk about the workaday world of the ultimate American sport. From the minors to the majors, from spring training to the world series, Baseball Lives takes a long fly look at the game as you’ve never seen it before.