Our Game:american Baseball History Book

(Audiobook) A older, but decent, overview of the history of baseball. This work reads like a textbook that you might find if you were to ever take a history of baseball course (which the author actually did teach). It covers baseball from its early beginnings in the 1850s up until the 1990 season. It does not go into depth on any one issue, but a brief overview of key dates, players, games, seasons, etc. It does mention the various struggles in baseball, from the Black Sox scandal, racial inequality and labor relations between players and owners. Even with many of the current issues of baseball, it can be hard to remember how labor disputes disrupted the games in the 1970s and 1980s. (In 1994, a strike would cancel the World Series, and for the most part, baseball has avoid any repeat of future labor struggles).

I meant to read/listen to this prior to the start of the baseball season, but with the Corona pandemic, this will have to suffice to cover for the itch that baseball usually scratches. An okay read/listen, and either version (audiobook or e-copy/hard copy) will rate about the same.