The Treasures of Major League Baseball by No Author (2007) Hardcover

by Major League Baseball, Dan Rosen, Tommy Lasorda (Foreword by)

Book by No Author

Genres: Baseball, Coffee Table Books

64 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada. One of the big four major leagues, MLB comprises 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada. Formed in 1876 and 1901, respectively, the NL and AL cemented their cooperation with the National Agreement in 1903, making MLB the oldest major professional sports league in the world. They remained legally separate entities until 2000, when they merged into a single organization led by the Commissioner of Baseball. MLB is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan.

Reviews

[Liesl · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a must for anyone who is passionate about baseball and the history of the game. From the first page to the last, there are many delights to explore. I highly recommend this book if you love America's Pasttime.

[Kris Dersch · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay, so let's start with...it's not a great book. It doesn't have any new information that baseball people don't already know, I found grammatical errors, and the whole thing is pretty oddly put together.
What takes this from solidly mediocre to worth the look through is the replica ephemera. In envelopes on nearly every two-page spread is fun stuff to look at: replica baseball cards, score cards, advertisements, Roberto Clemente's bat order, Jackie Robinson's resignation, the contract that sent Babe Ruth to the Yankees, and so on. Baseball is a game of ephemera and that stuff is for real fun to look at.
The only way I'd recommend this book, then, is to get it the way I got it...to find a used copy in good condition with all the stuff still in it. Because that ephemera will get lost quick and without it this is a pretty useless book of baseball history.

[Adrian Garza · Rating 4 out of 5]

In the book “The Treasures of Major League Baseball,” by MLB is a perfect book for a baseball fanatic or someone who is obsessed with the game. It tells the rich and fascinating history of baseball through hundreds of pictures and researched text. It shows the past and present of the game today, this book also explores the great players that once played the game, famous games with certain team owners, and broadcasters and collectors of baseball souvenirs. It also showed how some of the attitudes that managers and other teammates had to deal with and eventually overcome with each other. Overall, this book offers a new perspective on the national pastime and really gives in to detail about how the game of baseball has really evolved, and how it started to just have fun but now had become one of the biggest sports in the world which is pretty crazy.

A thing that I really liked and enjoyed about this book is all the visuals that it offered. It shows many posters, baseball cards, playoff and regular season tickets,etc., from the past as well as the present. It also gives really good details on certain players careers, personal life, and even their personalities. A thing that I didn’t like about this book is that it left out a lot of teams, and I don’t think it’s fair to only talk and explain about certain teams, even though this book say “Major League” which meaning all teams. I think every team in the Major Leagues has a certain background and something different that sets themselves apart from all the other team, and I believe this book did not reach that goal so they should have for sure extended the book to achieve that.

I think there were many examples given to the readers throughout this book, and some being good and some being bad. A good example that was eventually expressed in this book was that it explained that some of these players were a good person on and off the baseball diamond. It also described the bad personalities of certain players and team managers that people expect not to happen to professional athletes. All in all, this book provided really good and bad examples of Major League Baseball and how it really is in professional athletics, with no sugar codification.

The tone for the book sounds really enthusiastic and sounds like they know what they're talking about. The audience is obviously going right at or towards baseball lovers. I don’t see this book interesting any other type of people, just maybe people who are simply into sports. The language is very academic in a baseball sense. It really states words that people would know if they knew and have studied the game of baseball.

The difference between this baseball book and other baseball books is that this one tells the truth of how professional baseball really was. Other books always have a happy ending where everyone liked each other. In this book, some of the stories and situations that occurred, this wasn’t this case. There were stories where certain teammates had to deal with each other for a certain amount of time, and eventually had to demand a trade. This also shows me that even when people are a professional athlete, everything is still not fine and dandy. There is always going to be tribulations in people’s lives. Once you reach a certain peak there has to eventually be a decline, and rise up to the top once again. Overall, I encourage any baseball fan or even a sports to read this book. It really opens up the audience’s eyes, not only about baseball but all sports.

[Dick · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was put out by Major League Baseball and has a lot of old rare and never seen before photos, replicas of memorabelia including historical scorecards, letters, contracts and posters. Great fun to go through.