Great Moments in Baseball [Hardcover]

David Craft (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1997

A survey of the most baseball's most memorable moments. Captures in one definitive volume the excitement of the sport's most outstanding events. Records the circumstances & statistics leading up to the pinnacle moments in the rich history of baseball. Organized chronologically, it not only discusses these distinctive happenings, but shows how baseball has progressed over the years. Though baseball continuously evolves as one generation of players replaces another & records are broken, it relentlessly provides fans with exhilarating moments, both good & bad. Filled with action shots in color & b&w of the incidents as they unfolded.

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 80 pages
• Publisher: MetroBooks (NY) (April 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1567994180
• ISBN-13: 978-1567994186
• Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 10.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,797,007 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Picture book for new fans, February 18, 2008

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This review is from: Great Moments in Baseball (Hardcover)

Author David Craft suggests in his intro to GREAT MOMENTS IN BASEBALL that this brief photo essayer is best-suited to those just beginning a study of baseball history, and he's absolutely correct in this. For those with any knowledge of the sport, both the topics covered here and their accompanying photos will be all-too familiar.

In selective and rapid-fire manner, Craft devotes a half-page (or less) to the first World Series (1903), Merkle's boner (1908), the Black Sox scandal (1919), Bill Wambsganss' unassisted World Series triple play (1920), Murderer's Row (1927), Babe Ruth "calling his shot" (1932), the end of Lou Gehrig's consecutive game streak (1939), and so on, right through 1995.

Due to a 75 page format, absent are the exploits of Ty Cobb, Dizzy Dean, Hank Greenberg, Don Drysdale, Ralph Kiner, Ron Guidry, Maury Wills, Walter Johnson, Carl Yastrzemski and Whitey Ford, nor is any mention made of the 1949 AL pennant race or the NY/Boston 1978 playoff game. Curiously, space IS devoted to the Milwaukee Brewers and Toronto Blue Jays.

GREAT MOMENTS IN BASEBALL would make an ideal bathroom reader and little else, for it doesn't offer much beyond two minute glimpses of a few dozen salient events in "America's Favorite Pastime." As both history and photo book, it's too spotty to be anything more.


Ken Burns' BASEBALL: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY is one of the finest sports photo books available. Co-authored with Geoffrey C. Ward, this is the companion to the famous PBS BASEBALL documentary series of the 1990s.