John Rosengren presents Classic Baseball

Baseball–rooted as it is in tradition and nostalgia–lends itself to the retelling of its timeless stories. So it is with the stories in this collection of articles written by award-winning journalist John Rosengren and originally published by Sports Illustrated, The New Yorker, Sports on Earth, VICE Sports, and other magazines.

These are stories about the game's legends–Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, Josh Gibson, Bob Feller, Frank Robinson, Sandy Koufax, Kirby Puckett, et al.–and its lesser-knowns with remarkable tales of their own. They cover some of the game's most famous moments, like Hank Aaron hitting No. 715, and some you've never heard of, like the time the Ku Klux Klan played a game against an all-Black team. All stories meant to be read again and again for their poignancy, humor, and celebration of baseball.

John Rosengren is the author of ten books, most notably Blades of Glory: The True Story of a Young Team Bred to Win and Hank Greenberg: The Hero of Heroes. A Pulitzer nominee for his journalism, he has written articles about baseball and many other subjects for more than 100 publications, including The Atavist, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Sports Illustrated, and The Washington Post Magazine. He lives in Southwest Minneapolis.

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