Chasing Baseball: Our Obsession with Its History, Numbers, People and Places

by Dorothy Seymour Mills, Richard C. Crepeau (Foreword)

For more than five decades, pioneering researcher Dorothy Seymour Mills has studied and written about baseball's past. With this groundbreaking book, she turns her attention to the historians, stat hounds, and many thousands of not-so-casual fans whose fascination with the game and its history, like her own, defies easy explanation. As Mills demonstrates, baseball elicits a passion--and inspires a slightly off-kilter, obsessive behavior--that is only slightly less interesting than the people who indulge it.

Genres: Baseball, Nonfiction

266 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Also known as Dorothy Z. Seymour and Dorothy Jane Mills.

Reviews

[Melanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was recommended in another book I am reading. It was an interesting book and while there are many things I found interesting I left feeling a bit disappointed. I know she has written and co-written many other books on baseball. Personally, the horse was dead on the multiple mentions of this and another book A Woman's Work: Writing Baseball History with Harold Seymour. Near the end of the book but at times throughout she did too much name dropping - especially of her late husband. I do recommend this book for baseball fans -she covers many aspects that make people love the game.

[Marianne Chawluk · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well-written, but a little dry. Learned more about baseball, especially women who played (or wanted to play)baseball than I thought possible. All baseball lovers should read this, although it might raise the shackles of some men.

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sometimes very dry, sometimes very interesting, this book explains a lot about our obsession and frustration with baseball.

[Agatha Donkar Lund · Rating 3 out of 5]

Would have enjoyed this more if she hadn't been so contemptuous of modern technology (ie blogs).