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206 “Charles Manson”: George Vecsey, “The All-Century Player Who Haunts Baseball,”
New York Times
, October 25, 1999.

206 home runs and labor stoppage: Koppett,
Koppett's Concise History of Major League Baseball
, p. 481.

208 Bonds and steroids: Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada, “What Bonds Told BALCO Grand Jury,”
San Francisco Chronicle
, December 3, 2004.

XX: OCTOBER EXORCISMS

219 Pesky interview: George Vecsey, Fenway Park, October 2004.

EPILOGUE

221 e-mail: Christopher Vecsey, Ph.D., Colgate University.

A
BOUT THE AUTHOR

G
EORGE
V
ECSEY
, a sports columnist for
The New York Times
, has written about such events as the FIFA World Cup and the Olympics but considers baseball, the sport he's covered since 1960, his favorite game. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including
Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter
(with Loretta Lynn), which was made into an Academy Award–winning film. He has also served as national and religion reporter for
The New York Times
, interviewing the Dalai Lama, Tony Blair, Billy Graham, and a host of other noteworthy figures. He lives in New York with his wife, an artist.

T
HE
M
ODERN
L
IBRARY
E
DITORIAL
B
OARD

Maya Angelou


A. S. Byatt


Caleb Carr


Christopher Cerf


Harold Evans


Charles Frazier


Vartan Gregorian


Jessica Hagedorn


Richard Howard


Charles Johnson


Jon Krakauer


Edmund Morris


Azar Nafisi


Joyce Carol Oates


Elaine Pagels


John Richardson


Salman Rushdie


Oliver Sacks


Carolyn See


Gore Vidal

Copyright © 2006 by George Vecsey

All rights reserved.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Vecsey, George.

Baseball: a history of America's favorite game / George Vecsey.—
Modern Library ed.
p. cm. — (Modern Library chronicles book; 25)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
eISBN 978-0-307-49406-1
1. Baseball—United States—History. I. Title. II. Series:
Modern Library chronicles; 25.
GV863.A1V43 2006
796.3570973—dc22   2006045033

www.modernlibrary.com

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