Our Game: An American Baseball History

Rating:
Summary: An excellent account of our nation's greatest sport.
Review: As the reviews allude, Our Game is a very good crash course in baseball history. Its more historical review than commentary on players. Alexander sticks pretty much to the facts and happenings of any given year in baseball, without delving into personal opinion on the events themselves. A good read for the baseball fans who wants to expand his knowledge of the game's history without going through too much trouble.

Rating:
Summary: Complete and Concise
Review: Charles Alexander's book Our Game is a straight forward historical account of the national pasttime. In an age where very few people are interested in "pure" history, Alexander has managed to pen an intelligent and informative book that gets to the point quickly and provides the reader with a complete histroy of baseball.

Rating:
Summary: a good read...
Review: Good book for a baseball fan to learn the history of the game.

Rating:
Summary: Complete and Concise
Review: To learn of some of the obscure and not-so-obscure baseball history lessons, this is a good read. That's worth 3 stars. The self-gratification and self-indulgence the author does throughout the book left me wondering if he was not just a bit full of himself while he penned about our pasttime. I enjoy some of the facts of baseball included here but would have enjoyed a thinner version without all of the bragadocious ways of the author.

Rating:
Summary: good history, bad writing
Review: To learn of some of the obscure and not-so-obscure baseball history lessons, this is a good read. That's worth 3 stars. The self-gratification and self-indulgence the author does throughout the book left me wondering if he was not just a bit full of himself while he penned about our pasttime. I enjoy some of the facts of baseball included here but would have enjoyed a thinner version without all of the bragadocious ways of the author.