Chasing baseball: our obsession with its history, numbers, people and places

Abstract

Despite worries about baseball's decline, deep interest in memorabilia, fantasy baseball, exhibits, and the games themselves indicate the sport is surviving steroid scandals, negative publicity, and the perception that the game is more nostalgia than a part of current popular culture. This book shows that while basketball and football might enjoy wider popularity today, no sport elicits the passion - or inspires the slightly off-kilter, obsessive behavior - that baseball does.