Baseball and the Baby Boomer A History, Commentary, and Memoir			«Back
	Talmage Boston Foreword by Frank Deford Hard Cover 6" x 9", 288 pages 46 b&w photographs History / Sports / Non-Fiction 978-1-933979-26-7 February 2009 $24.95 Quantity: Gift Tie: YesNo Promotional Code:
30% DISCOUNT applied at checkout "... it's the combination of this book being "History, Commentary, And Memoir" which makes it very entertaining... it's a well researched, somewhat uniquely constructed and a very pleasant reading experience - whether you're a Baby Boomer or not. If you're a baseball fan, and enjoy reading about it, I recommend that you consider checking out this book."- WasWatching.com "Different players are heroes to different people. Talmage's selection of principals that he chose to write about — from Jackie Robinson to Bart Giamatti — reveals what matters to him probably better than any traditional Rohrschatz test ever would. " – Frank Deford, from his foreword. Six time National Sportswriter of the Year Commentator, National Public Radio "Talmage Boston's new book is a powerful statement of what baseball has meant to America's fans since World War II...." – Tim McCarver, Fox Television Analyst and former Major League catcher "Boston has a fine writing style... If other baby boomers can shift their gaze from their own navels to this book, they'd probably find a lot to like in this book." – www.greatbaseballbooks.wordpress.com "... fans of any age, background and team affiliation can appreciate its pure, passionate salute to the heart and soul of the game itself." – American Profile "Opening Boston's book is a bit like wandering in on a good sports discussion in a bar. After you leave, you feel you've not only learned something, but also been honored to be in the company of those telling their tales." - Fort Worth Business Press
Over the last 50 years, most Baby Boomers have played the game of baseball, watched it, coached their kids in it, read about it, or best of all, replayed it in that special place Bart Giamatti named "the green fields of the mind." Baseball and the Baby Boomer is in large part a baseball history book, but it is also a commentary on baseball's "political" issues — Pete Rose's gambling, steroids, etc. — as well as a fan's memoir of the National Pastime over the last half century. It traces a Baby Boomer's lifetime experience with the game from childhood heroes to adult friends, and from Ford Frick's asterisk to the Mitchell Report. Almost every chapter in Baseball and the Baby Boomer has been the subject of several 300-page books written by other authors. This new volume tells all the favorite postwar era stories of the game in a streamlined fashion — with sufficient depth to interest a serious baseball aficionado, but without so much minutiae that someone reading baseball history for the first time would get overwhelmed. TALMAGE BOSTON, a Partner in Winstead Law Firm in Dallas, is a member of the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame and the Society of American Baseball Research. He has written columns and book reviews for the Dallas Morning News, People Newspapers and the Dallas Business Journal. His articles on baseball have appeared in theFort Worth Star-Telegram, Elysian Fields Quarterly, and Memories & Dreams (a National Baseball Hall of Fame publication). Talmage is a frequent lecturer on baseball history. Talmage Boston is a BRIGHT STAR.