Chasing Dreams: Baseball and Becoming American features a notable array of authors, sportswriters, former players, and commentators offering evocative, compelling, and touching essays. The stories that fill this volume illustrate baseball’s centrality in American culture, from the major leagues to the little leagues, and how parents, children, and grandchildren adapted to, and sometimes challenged, what it means to be an American.
With contributions from:
Michael Scott Alexander
Rebecca T. Alpert
Marty Appel
Marc Appleman
Brad Ausmus
Abraham Cahan
Billy Crystal
Michael Berenbaum
Ira Berkow
Barry M. Bloom
Adrian Burgos Jr.
Adam Chandler
William Choslovsky
Colin Friedman
Doug Glanville
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Eric Rolfe Greenberg
Jeffrey S. Gurock
Aviva Kempner
Jane Leavy
Peter Levine
Bernard Malamud
Colum McCann
Pamela S. Nadell
Kerry Yo Nakagawa
Daniel Okrent
Chaim Potok
Shirley Povich
Joshua Prager
William Ressler
Steven A. Riess
Philip Roth
Rob Ruck
Justine Siegal
Scott Simon
Curt Smith
Arn Tellem
John Thorn
Marc Tracy
Beth S. Wenger
Stephen Wong
Steve Wulf