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The First All-Star Game

Babe Ruth, FDR and America at the Crossroads

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The First All-Star Game

著者： Randall Sullivan
ナレーター： Johnny Heller
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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 trouble, too. Owners slashed budgets, fans stayed home, and even the mighty Babe Ruth seemed to have lost some of his magic. The election of Franklin D. Roosevelt offered hope, but just days before his inauguration, five shots rang out—missing the president-elect, killing the mayor of Chicago, and setting in motion a chain of events that would eventually bring together the world’s best ballplayers for the first All-Star Game.

It was a newspaperman’s idea: The Game of the Century. Put the world’s best on one field but let the public decide who belonged there. At a moment when some feared the national pastime would not survive the decade, Chicago would host it as the highlight of the 1933 World’s Fair. The city hoped to shed its reputation as a haven for gamblers and gangsters and help restore America’s standing on the world stage. But abroad, dark clouds were gathering. Hitler was Germany’s new chancellor, and Mussolini had consolidated his power. As visitors strolled the fairgrounds, Italian warplanes flew overhead, and a zeppelin sent by the German delegation circled the city emblazoned with a swastika.

The First All-Star Game is the story of a nation and a sport at a crossroads—and a sweeping look back at baseball’s early history and the America that shaped it. Deeply researched and filled with remarkable characters—from legendary players like Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Lefty Grove to Bonnie and Clyde, Al Capone, and Charles Lindbergh—Randall Sullivan explores the history of an American obsession and captures the moment when both the sport and the nation found renewal in a single spectacle of hope. 南北アメリカ大陸 州政府・自治体 米国 野球・ソフトボール
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