The Last Commissioner: A Baseball Valentine [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Vincent, Fay

Verlag: Simon & Schuster, New York, 2002

Beschreibung

As new condition dark blue boards with a white spine and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote; Introduction by Fay Vincent dated February 14, 2002; and Index. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates. "Fay Vincent's insights on baseball issues are of course valuable, but as these pages reveal, what Vincent himself valued most about the game was the people he encountered within it. Vincent is an estimable man whose insights are valuable and whose personal experience serves as something of a metaphor for the state of baseball: 'The grate game seduces him, and the craven institution dumps him." - Bob Costas. "I don't remember who said that examining the business of baseball is like looking at the sun - you can't do it for very long before you have to turn away - but I certainly know what he meant. The business is awful and ugly, but the game itself is so magical and lyrical that it keeps bringing you back. I hear all the talk of gloom and doom, and I always say, Don't talk about the game being killed, because these guys today, however venal and stupid, can't kill it. You couldn't kill it if you tried . It will last if the players and owners and other stewards of the game keep their eye on the ball - and on the fan. What is baseball without its fans? Nothing, not a thing." - from The Last Commissioner. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 004064

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Last Commissioner: A Baseball Valentine ...

Verlag: Simon & Schuster, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 2002

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: As New

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition