The First All-Star Game: Babe Ruth, FDR and America at the Crossroads

Acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan tells the story of baseball in America, from its rough-and-tumble origins through the first decades of the twentieth century and into the pivotal summer of 1933-when national crisis and a sport's fight for survival converged in baseball's first All-Star Game

1933. America was still reeling from the crash. Breadlines stretched around city blocks and shanty- towns sprawled in the shadows of skyscrapers. American optimism was fading-and baseball was in tro...