A Great and Glorious Game

In A Great and Glorious Game, a collection of spirited, incisive essays, Giamatti reflects on the meaning of the game. Baseball, for him, was a metaphor for life. He artfully argues that baseball is much more than an American "pastime." "Baseball is about going home," he wrote, "and how hard it is to get there and how driven is our need." And in his powerful 1989 decision to ban Pete Rose from baseball, Giamatti states that no individual is superior to the game itself, just as no individual is superior to our democracy.

A Great and Glorious Game is a thoughtful meditation on baseball, character, and values by one of the most eloquent men in the world of sport. With a foreword by writer and journalist David Halberstam.