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THE NEW YORK GAME: Baseball and the Rise of a New City. By Kevin Baker. Knopf, 528 pp., $38. Chris Vognar, a freelance culture writer, was the 2009 Nieman Arts and Culture Fellow at Harvard ...
In his book “The New York Game,” Kevin Baker tells the origin story of the sport we know today. Share full article Babe Ruth and Jacob Ruppert, the owner of the Yankees, in 1930, after Ruth ...