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Taylor Trade Publishing Warsaw to Wrigley: A Foreign Correspondent's Tale of Coming Home from Communism to the Cubs
After more than a decade as a foreign correspondent for UPI and the Chicago Tribune, Joseph Reaves came home to a new career covering baseball; not just any baseball, but Chicago Cubs baseball. Warsaw to Wrigley is the story of getting reacquainted with the U.S. from behind-the-scenes in the baseball press box, with all its blemishes and beauty.
£19.00
University of Nebraska Press Taking in a Game: A History of Baseball in Asia
In Taking in a Game, Joseph A. Reaves examines the development of baseball in Korea, the Philippines, Mainland China, and Taiwan, as well as the more widely known story of baseball in Japan. In this entertaining and informed account, Reaves covers everything from baseball in Qing Dynasty China in the nineteenth century to the 2000 Sydney Olympics bronze-medal match between Japan and Korea. Reaves guides the reader through a history of Asian baseball, the cultures that surround it, and the future of what has become a great Asian game.
£14.99
