Jon Pessah was a founding editor of ESPN the Magazine. He has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, managed the sports departments for Newsday and the Hartford Courant, and edited, wrote, and ran the investigative team for ESPN the Magazine.
"A compelling, high-stakes look at baseball.... Pessah does a great
job of providing glimpses of conversations fans were not privy to,
while placing them in context by describing what was happening on
the field in that moment. Essential for fans of 1990s- and
2000s-era baseball."--Library Journal (starred review)
"A gritty and sensational history of America's national pastime...
a juicy and engrossing story that reads like a thriller, with a
star supporting cast... A must-read before 2016 labor negotiations
begin. Pessah calls the game perfectly."--Marilyn Dahl, Shelf
Awareness
"A sweeping and comprehensive investigation of the business of
baseball over the past three decades.... Fascinating."--Anthony L.
Fisher, Reason.com
"An important addition that will go down as the ultimate look on
the business side of the Bud Selig era."--David Schoenfield,
ESPN
"Engaging, nitty-gritty account of the Bud Selig era, including
backroom battles with George Steinbrenner, Don Fehr and
steroids."--Sports Illustrated
"Fascinating.... This juicy read focuses on three men who shaped
[baseball's] history over [the last] two decades--Selig, union head
Don Fehr, and Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.... the most
surprising part of the book is without a doubt the portrait of
Steinbrenner. While still rendered as an insatiable tyrant, the
Boss--and his willingness to put his money where his mouth is--is a
breath of fresh air."--The Daily Beast
"Highest recommendation."--Gordon Edes, ESPN Boston
"In clear, accessible prose, [THE GAME] covers strikes, steroids
and everything in between. Not an easy task. The most memorable
sections are about Steinbrenner. Pessah deftly captures the man's
heavy-handed--and often underhanded--leadership."--Michael S.
Schmidt, New York Times
"Jon Pessah clearly had good access to Bud Selig.... Very well
done."--Budd Bailey, The Buffalo News
"MLB fans will love all the backstage accounts of the internecine
warfare between commissioner and players, commissioner and owners,
owners and owners and players and players."--Jim Dey, The
News-Gazette
"Pessah has made his book read like a great novel.... The author
also brilliantly shows the impact the game had and continues to
have on American life, and how it maintains its prominent place in
the cycle and fabric of our country's summers. Pessah is adept at
revealing the ebb and flow of fan despair, anger, and
joy."--Russell P. Gantos Jr., New York Journal of Books
"Pessah tells a story that is equal parts history lesson and
political docudrama, cultivating an entertaining read.... An
eye-opening account of how the current era of baseball was made and
who, for better or worse, led it to where it is now.... I fully
recommend any baseball fan who is passionate about the sport as a
whole -- both past, present, and future -- to pick up The
Game."--Charlie Poliseno, SB Nation's "DRaysBay"
"Serious baseball fans will appreciate the author's deep research
and his ability to weave multiple stories together into a graceful
narrative."--Kirkus Reviews
"The action is in the boardroom, not the ballpark, in this dramatic
account of the business side of baseball.... Pessah includes
engaging play-by-play from key games, but his focus is on contract
negotiations, revenue models, politics, deal-cutting, and the
commercial calculations behind moving a team or injecting steroids.
The resulting account of off-field strategizing is as engrossing as
any stadium showdown."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"There are lots of fresh notes, quotes and anecdotes in The Game,
but its chief value for those who care is its meticulous
reconstruction of the fraught era.... The most compelling parts of
The Game deal with baseball's abject failure to confront the
steroid plague."--Edward Kosner, Wall Street Journal
"This might be the definitive account of how front offices control
Major League Baseball.... Pessah crafts freeze-frame descriptions
of the most critical backroom moments of the modern era...."--Rob
Fischer, Men's Journal
One of "The Season's Best Baseball Books" "A poignant account of
the power struggle between three men: MLB Commissioner Bud Selig,
Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, and player's union leader Don
Fehr."--Robert Birnbaum, The Daily Beast
Finalist for the 2015 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the
Year
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