Playing Hardball

by David Whitford

A behind-the-scenes look at major league baseball's expansion teams, the Denver Rockies and the Miami Marlins, Playing Hardball is the story of how two cities beat out four others to earn the right to call themselves big league. Whitford looks at the building of a franchise from the ground up and explores the larger questions facing baseball today.

Genres: Baseball

271 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1993

Reviews

[Dave Cottenie · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting, behind-the-scenes look at the politics that brought the Colorado Rockies and Florida Marlins into Major League Baseball. The political dealings in Colorado alone over many levels of government are fascinating and full of controversy. A little too much background on the scouts that made up the Marlins expansion war room. Unfortunately, Whitford did not give the reader the list of players that were actually taken in the expansion draft, ending with the first two picks and comments about the expansion draft.