B&W Illustrations; The book and its contents are clean and bright. Green paper covered boards have a black cloth spine with gilt lettering. The text pages are clean and bright. Endpapers are illustrated with photos of a baseball stadium. There is a tiny spot of rubbing to the rear dust jacket cover by the rear flap joint. "This is a book about baseball, our national pastime. The centerpiece is a team that hasn't won the championship for seventy years. The Boston Red Sox, however, are only part of the story. The rest turns on thoughts about family and continuity, and, of course, the progress of the seasons. Something, you'll learn, any reasonably intelligent man or woman is supposed to know about."

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