In conversation with Andy Martino, moderated by Steven Goldman, at St. Peter’s Parish Hall, 12:10 pm to 1:00 pm
About the author
Kevin Baker is a novelist, historian, and journalist. He has been a professional writer since the age of 13, working originally for the Gloucester Daily Times as a stringer covering schoolboy sports. He is the co-author of Reggie Jackson’s Becoming Mr. October. His work has appeared in Harper’s, where he is also a contributing editor, as well as in the New York Observer, the New York Times, and the New Republic. He lives in New York City.
MFOB featured book: The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City
The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City is hugely entertaining, bursting with larger-than-life figures and fascinating stories from the game’s beginnings to the end of World War II: from the first innings played in vacant lots and tavern yards in the 1820s; to the canny innovations that created the very first sports league; to the superb Hispanic and Black players who invented their own versions of the game when White baseball sought to exclude them. And all amidst New York’s own, incredible evolution from a raw, riotous town to a new world city. This is a riveting, rollicking, brilliant ode to America’s beloved pastime and to its indomitable city of origin.
