An Evening with Kevin Baker, Author of The New York Game: Baseball And The Rise of a New City

An evening with author and historian Kevin Baker, who will discuss his book The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City. 

Baseball is “the New York game” because New York is where the diamond was first laid out, where the bunt and the curveball were invented, and where the home run was hit. It’s where the game’s first stars were born, and where everyone came to play or watch the game. With nuance and depth, historian Kevin Baker brings this all vividly back to life as well as all the legendary players, managers and owners, in all their vivid, complicated humanity, on and off the field.

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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 school-boy sports. He is the coauthor of Reggie Jackson’s Becoming Mr. October. His work as appeared in Harper’s, where he is also a contributing editor, New York Observer, The New York Times and The New Republic. He lives in New York City.