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The Conscience of the Game: Baseball's Commissioners from Landis to Selig

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"Conscience of the Game: Baseball's Commissioners from Landis to Selig" is that rare treasure of a sports book that takes the reader on a compelling historical journey through time, while simultaneously posing thought-provoking questions concerning the future.

The volume illustrates the different ways in which each person holding that office has approached his mandate to advance and protect the best interests of the national pastime...and the challenges that the Commissioner of Baseball faces today and into the future.

For those who love the game of baseball, enjoy its history and care about its future, this book offers a wonderful, thought-provoking read.

As its title and subtitle suggest, this book is a history of baseball's office of the commissioner, and contains many fascinating details (both familiar and little-known). Yet it's more than that: It's a meditation on the social and personal factors involved in the challenging effort to preserve a professional sport's moral compass.

Best of all, Mr. Moffi writes with an elegant informality on behalf of us long-suffering yet ever loyal fans. Reading "Conscience of the Game" is like drinking a beer and talking baseball into the wee hours with a thoughtful, humorous, and impassioned friend.

Also highly recommended: two of Mr. Moffi's other books ("Crossing the Line: Black Major Leaguers, 1947-1959" and "This Side of Cooperstown: An Oral History of Major League Baseball in the 1950s"), as well as his volumes of poetry ("A Citizen's Handbook" and "A Simple Progession").