Talmage Boston on "Baseball and the Baby Boomer"

Baseball historian Talmage Boston discusses his latest book: Baseball and the Baby Boomer: A History, Commentary, and Memoir.

For more details, see http://www.talmageboston.com/.

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Over the last 50 years, most Baby Boomers have played the game of baseball, watched it, coached their kids in it, read about it, or best of all, replayed it in that special place Bart Giamatti named the green fields of the mind.

Baseball and the Baby Boomer is in large part a baseball history book, but it is also a commentary on baseballs political issues — Pete Roses gambling, steroids, etc. — as well as a fans memoir of the National Pastime over the last half century. It traces a Baby Boomers lifetime experience with the game from childhood heroes to adult friends, and from Ford Fricks asterisk to the Mitchell Report.

Almost every chapter has been the subject of several 300-page books written by other authors. This new volume tells all the favorite postwar era stories of the game in a streamlined fashion — with sufficient depth to interest a serious baseball aficionado, but without so much minutiae that someone reading baseball history for the first time would get overwhelmed.

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