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This volume is an unconventional foray into the underworld of baseball. It looks at issues such as baseball's cult of memory, numerology in sport and society, the emergence of an anti-competitive league and exploitation by a cartel.

About the Author

Dean Chadwin, teacher and attorney, has written about law, politics. sport, and culture for publications that include the Nation, Honolulu Weekly, and the New York Observer. A graduate of Yale. Chadwin lives in New York City.

Reviews

Chadwin challenges the Yankee myth head on. musing upon the team's sins, past present, and future. He tackles his topic with a zealotry worthy of any Kennedy conspiracy theorist. If you wore black the day the Dodgers left Brooklyn or wept as Carl Yastrzemski watched Bucky Dent's homer clear the Green Monster, you'll find a kindred soul in these pages.
*New York Times*

An in-depth look at the litany of Bronx Bomber bummers is long overdue - for Yankee haters and lovers alike. Chadwin provides it, and he gives it good. From their free ride from the media, to their problems with integration, to their symbolism of power, the Yankees are skewered over and over. Good. Let Yankee fans live the examined fife for once.
*Village Voice*

Chadwin's real originality lies in pointing out how the immigrant's game has been corrupted by big business, big politics and big media.
*The Independent*

Chadwin rightly chides George Will, Ken Bums and other eggheads who pen tomes and compile lengthy documentaries that 'tout the game's moral qualities.' Baseball is not quite the ethics lesson they say it is, Chadwin contends. And he's right.
*LA Weekly*

[Chadwin] conducts us on a gleefully leftist excursion through Steinbrenner country, complete with corporate malfeasance, racism, media corruption, and the most aggressive, vulgar fans this side of England's soccer hooligans.
*Toronto Globe and Mail*

Chadwin challenges the Yankee myth head on. musing upon the team's sins, past present, and future. He tackles his topic with a zealotry worthy of any Kennedy conspiracy theorist. If you wore black the day the Dodgers left Brooklyn or wept as Carl Yastrzemski watched Bucky Dent's homer clear the Green Monster, you'll find a kindred soul in these pages. * New York Times *
An in-depth look at the litany of Bronx Bomber bummers is long overdue - for Yankee haters and lovers alike. Chadwin provides it, and he gives it good. From their free ride from the media, to their problems with integration, to their symbolism of power, the Yankees are skewered over and over. Good. Let Yankee fans live the examined fife for once. * Village Voice *
Chadwin's real originality lies in pointing out how the immigrant's game has been corrupted by big business, big politics and big media. * The Independent *
Chadwin rightly chides George Will, Ken Bums and other eggheads who pen tomes and compile lengthy documentaries that 'tout the game's moral qualities.' Baseball is not quite the ethics lesson they say it is, Chadwin contends. And he's right. * LA Weekly *
[Chadwin] conducts us on a gleefully leftist excursion through Steinbrenner country, complete with corporate malfeasance, racism, media corruption, and the most aggressive, vulgar fans this side of England's soccer hooligans. * Toronto Globe and Mail *