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He tries to cover the bases, and he does. His examination of baseball's transition from a country game to a city game, and with it the enormously symbiotic role it played in introducing--and synthesizing--each new wave of immigrants into American culture, is splendid. He makes the game's often Byzantine business practices--going back to the 1870s--at least understandable, and he takes some good cuts at the implications of the Black Sox scandal, the legacy of Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson's crossing of the color line, the tangled web of the reserve clause and free agency, the game's flight to the suburbs, and its return to downtown. For a concise introduction--"concise" and "introduction" must be stressed here--to baseball history, The National Game does its job; it's the literary equivalent of a solid utility infielder. Ironically, by trying to touch as many bases as he does, Rossi also spreads himself thin. That, in a nutshell, is the upside and downside of trying to compress a couple of centuries' worth of names, dates, events, trends, facts, fables, myths, and interpretation into just a couple of hundred pages. --Jeff Silverman
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