{"id":3461,"date":"2020-12-30T14:41:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T19:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=3461"},"modified":"2020-12-30T14:41:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T19:41:55","slug":"book-review-a-great-and-glorious-game-by-bart-giamatti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=3461","title":{"rendered":"Book review:  A Great and Glorious Game by Bart Giamatti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/274974.A_Great_and_Glorious_Game\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/274974.A_Great_and_Glorious_Game\">A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/569496.A_Bartlett_Giamatti\">A. Bartlett Giamatti<\/a><br><br>My rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/3727993315\">5 of 5 stars<\/a><br><br><br>I like baseball (a lot), but I don&#8217;t love baseball. (College basketball is my true obsession.) But Bart Giamatti&#8217;s essays about baseball makes me wish that I loved baseball as much as he did (if that is even possible). And his essays certainly make me appreciate baseball and its &#8220;deep, resonant pauses&#8221; more than I did before.<br>Even if you aren&#8217;t a fan of baseball or sports, in general, the author&#8217;s writing&#8211;deep, profound, yet accessible&#8211;makes this book worth reading. His love for baseball informs every sentence he writes, and his respect for the history and what the sport means to the fans&#8211;young and old, immigrant and 10th generation&#8211;is evident in his passion and his enthusiasm. I only wish I could write a tenth as well as he could.<br>From Yale professor to Yale president to National League president to baseball commissioner, Bart Giamatti&#8217;s musings on baseball reflect the country as it is and the country as it would like to be. Never would I have thought that I would give 5 stars to a bunch of essays on baseball. Read this for yourself and see why it is beyond well-deserved.<br><br><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/1396812-may\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti by A. Bartlett Giamatti My rating: 5 of 5 stars I like baseball (a lot), but I don&#8217;t love baseball. (College basketball is my true obsession.) But Bart Giamatti&#8217;s essays about baseball makes me wish that I loved baseball as much as he did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40],"tags":[607,587,336,214,606],"class_list":["post-3461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-bart-giamatti","tag-baseball","tag-books","tag-essays","tag-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-TP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3462,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3461\/revisions\/3462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}