The Perfect Game: America Looks at Baseball

by Meg Smeal, Elizabeth V. Warren, Roger Angell

Book Overview

For the ardent baseball fan, what sets the sport apart - what makes it the perfect game - are the treasured memories it evokes of a time gone by. This nostalgic visual history celebrates more than 150 years of baseball's - and America's - past. Beginning in the 1840s and continuing through to the end of the 20th century, the book captures in portraits, watercolours, carvings, painted signs, lithographs and a wide variety of everyday objects reminders...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810945045
• ISBN13: 9780810945043
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.5" x 11.6"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

In the Running for the CASEY Award

Beautiful photos of baseball folk art and an informative text which discusses the specific pieces of art shown and the artists who created them -something many art books don't do- this book is a treat for baseball fans and art lovers, as well as a deserving CASEY Award Finalist for 2003.

A Delightful Book

I don't usually buy "art" books, but as a baseball fan I couldn't resist this one. I'm glad that I didn't, since I don't remember when I had so much fun with a book. Page after page surprised, entertained, and informed me. I don't know which I enjoyed more, the illustrations or the text. One intriquing aspect of the book is the way in which it ties the changing folk art and ephemera of baseball to a changing American society.Would I have enjoyed the book if I weren't a baseball fan? Probably. I lent my copy to a friend with an interest in art, but absolutely no interest in sports. She liked it enough to visit the show at the American Folk Art Museum. (But not enough that I could talk her into attending an actual baseball game.)In summary, I strongly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in EITHER baseball or folk art.