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The Game
The Game: Inside the Secret World of Major League Baseball's Power Brokers | Jon Pessah
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The incredible inside story of power, money, and baseball's last twenty years In the fall of 1992, America's National Pastime is in crisis and already on the path to the unthinkable: cancelling a World Series for the first time in history. The owners are at war with each other, their decades-long battle with the players has turned America against both sides, and the players' growing addiction to steroids will threaten the game's very foundation. It is a tipping point for baseball, a crucial moment in the game's history that catalyzes a struggle for power by three strong-willed men: Commissioner Bud Selig, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, and union leader Don Fehr. It's their uneasy alliance at the end of decades of struggle that pulls the game back from the brink and turns it into a money-making powerhouse that enriches them all. This is the real story of baseball, played out against a tableau of stunning athletic feats, high-stakes public battles, and backroom political deals--with a supporting cast that includes Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire, Joe Torre and Derek Jeter, George Bush and George Mitchell, and many more. Drawing from hundreds of extensive, exclusive interviews throughout baseball, The Game is a stunning achievement: a rigorously reported book and the must-read, fly-on-the-wall, definitive account of how an enormous struggle for power turns disaster into baseball's Golden Age.
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Therewillbebooks
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New Patreon episode is out!

We start by announcing our first selection for our Thriller Book Club, “The Silent Patient“ by Alex Michaelides. We're excited to read this book and talk about it with our Patrons over the coming month or so.

Next, we discuss a new sports book series, We look at different types of non-fiction and fiction baseball books and throw out some possible books to read.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/thriller-book-66060440

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StephanieGeiser
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At the end of the night last night I suddenly remembered I forgot to wrap one last gift (whoops). So here I am, wrapping on Christmas morning. 😂 Merry Christmas, Dad! I hope you like it!

Amiable That looks like something my husband would enjoy! Thanks for the heads up. 5y
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