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Shuffling between the farm teams and the Show, Ballpark resonates with the first-person narratives of beer vendors, ushers, clubbies, trainers, denizens of the press box, and front-office personnel--even the Phillie Phanatic. If some are more fascinating than others--hey, that's baseball--all contribute to the book's evocative texture. An epilogue in the form of an essay dissects baseball work with the dry edge of erudition, footnotes and all, offering such wisdom as "When we compare work in the minor leagues with the big leagues we find the higher one ascends the professional baseball ladder, the larger the staff and the more complex the division of labor." Don't hold that against it. If Ballpark's extra innings flag, the individual voices that precede it are wonderfully different, lively, and generally filled with charm. --Jeff Silverman
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