{"product_id":"the-games-that-changed-baseball-9781476662268","title":"The Games That Changed Baseball","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   The national pastime''s rich history and vast cache of statistics have provided fans and researchers a gold mine of narrative and data since the late 19th century. Many books have been written about Major League Baseball''s most famous games. This one takes a different approach, focusing on MLB''s most historically significant games.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   Some will be familiar to baseball scholars, such as the October afternoon in 1961 when Roger Maris eclipsed Babe Ruth''s single-season home run record, or the compelling sixth game of the 1975 World Series. Other fascinating games are less well known: the day at the Polo Grounds in 1921, when a fan named Reuben Berman filed a lawsuit against the New York Giants, winning fans the right to keep balls hit into the stands; the first televised broadcast of an MLB game in 1939; opening night of the Houston Astrodome in 1965, when spectators no longer had to be taken \u003ci\u003eout\u003c\/i\u003e to the ballgame; or the spectator-less April 2015 Orioles-White Sox gam\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040385171799,"sku":"9781476662268","price":27.54,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476662268.jpg?v=1750946577","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-games-that-changed-baseball-9781476662268","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}