![]() This is not a ” pictorial history” like those abounding in the bookstores but a time travel machine-put yourself in the cordoned crowd at Baker Bowl … or at third base, dodging Cobb’s flashing spikes … or at the bat, steeling your nerve as The Big Train whips his arm plateward. Like conventional TNPs this is, as the logo proclaims, “A Review of Baseball History,” but with the key differences that the period under review is narrowly defined and that here text exists to illuminate the pictures, which are the principal means of telling the story. Two years after bringing you the first pictorial issue of The National Pastime, that one devoted to the nineteenth century, we turn the century to what is the game’s most beautifully photographed and arguably most exciting period.
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