Filled with colorful history, amusing anecdotes, rare photos, and an array of collectibles, this volume is both a loving tribute and an invaluable chronicle of Minor League Baseball. Ardent fans and casual readers alike will delight in this book's surprising facts and trivia. 100 Black-and-white and color photos.
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From the Durham Bulls to the Seattle Rainiers, America has pursued a love affair with minor-league baseball since the 18th century. Baseball's Hometown Teams, an attractive compilation of mostly vintage black-and-white photos and accompanying text, pays tribute to this sometimes overlooked part of the national pastime.
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Minor-league baseball teams were once a focal point of rural and small-town life. With limited entertainment options, a ball game was a perfect way to pass a weekend afternoon. Chadwick, who has written for Sports Illustrated and the New York Daily News, engages readers in a leisurely and informative stroll--illustrated with dozens of striking black-and-white photographs--along baseball's backroads. He covers the earliest years, when teams were really local clubs manned by local players, through the glory years when each major-league team had a legion of minor-league branches. He also charts the demise of minor-league ball through the 1960s and 1970s when television and other entertainment venues combined to rob the minors of both fans and dollars. He points out an overlooked factor in the minors' diminishing fan base during that time: Little League. The recent resurgence of minor-league baseball is also explored at length. A beautifully illustrated and thoughtfully written book that emphasizes America's love affair with the game of baseball, not necessarily with the major leagues. Wes Lukowsky
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This review is from: Baseball's Hometown Teams: The Story of the Minor Leagues (Major league memories) (Hardcover)
I loved the history and the photos presented in this book. However, as a Midwest League fan, I found this book really out of date when dealing with the present, but that is also a problem of the constant shifting within the system. But still, it seems that with its publishing date, the information about the addition of clubs like the Michigan Battle Cats, the Lansing Lugnuts and the shifting of the parent club for the West Michigan Whitecaps to the Detroit Tigers would have made it in there. Important because these three clubs have won four of the last five championships. So, a good book for long-ago history, but not nearly enough attention paid to the present game.
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