For more than five decades, pioneering researcher Dorothy Seymour Mills has studied and written about baseball's past. With this groundbreaking book, she turns her attention to the historians, stat hounds, and many thousands of not-so-casual fans whose fascination with the game and its history, like her own, defies easy explanation. As Mills demonstrates, baseball elicits a passion--and inspires a slightly off-kilter, obsessive behavior--that is only slightly less interesting than the people who indulge it.
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Writer and consultant Dorothy Seymour Mills is the author of twenty-four books. The first female historian in the Society for American Baseball Research, she is a member of the Association for Women in Sports Media. She lives in Naples, Florida.
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Dorothy Seymour Mills has hit a home run again through her detailed research on the topic of baseball. For anyone who has ever wondered why baseball is called our "National Pastime" this book is for you. Written in two parts: A Manly Pursuit and A Womanly Pursuit, Chasing Baseball is loaded with historical and contemporary information that explains why baseball holds a fascination for many people of both genders--and for both the young and young at heart. A must read for those who want to understand this aspect of our American culture and how baseball has evolved, and continues to evolve. Without spoiling much of its content, I assure you that anyone who reads this book will learn something new, and possibly raise one's awareness in ways that they didn't think mattered--but does.
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Dorothy Seymour Mills understands more about our national obsession with baseball than any other historian. In this book she examiness all aspects of why we still consider it our national game. Without sounding pompous, she explains how it has been, and continues to be exploited and corrupted and yet remains pure in the minds of its followers. The last section of Chasing Baseball is a real eye-opener. With meticulously researched details about real women players, umpires, coaches and executives, she makes the true lover of the sport feel cheated that none of them ever got a shot at the big show.
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