The Game: Inside the Secret World of Major League Baseball's Power Brokers - Hardcover

Pessah, Jon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316185884 ISBN 13: 9780316185882

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, 2015

Synopsis

The incredible inside story of power, money, and baseball's last twenty years

In the fall of 1992, America's National Pastime is in crisis and already on the path to the unthinkable: cancelling a World Series for the first time in history. The owners are at war with each other, their decades-long battle with the players has turned America against both sides, and the players' growing addiction to steroids will threaten the game's very foundation.

It is a tipping point for baseball, a crucial moment in the game's history that catalyzes a struggle for power by three strong-willed men: Commissioner Bud Selig, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, and union leader Don Fehr. It's their uneasy alliance at the end of decades of struggle that pulls the game back from the brink and turns it into a money-making powerhouse that enriches them all.

This is the real story of baseball, played out against a tableau of stunning athletic feats, high-stakes public battles, and backroom political deals--with a supporting cast that includes Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire, Joe Torre and Derek Jeter, George Bush and George Mitchell, and many more.

Drawing from hundreds of extensive, exclusive interviews throughout baseball, The Game is a stunning achievement: a rigorously reported book and the must-read, fly-on-the-wall, definitive account of how an enormous struggle for power turns disaster into baseball's Golden Age.

About this title

About the Author:

Jon Pessah was a founding editor of ESPN the Magazine. He has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, managed the sports departments for Newsday and the Hartford Courant, and edited, wrote, and ran the investigative team for ESPN the Magazine.

Review:

"The Game" is a practically pitch-by-pitch account of the machinations of baseball commissioner Bud Selig, disgraced New York Yankee owner George Steinbrenner, and Don Fehr, the head of the major-league players' union." - Edward Kosner, The Wall Street Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0316185884
• ISBN 13: 9780316185882
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 656