Taking in a Game

This is 2002 SABR/The Sporting News Baseball Research Award Winner, and winner of the 2001 Jerry Malloy Book Prize 2003, as well as a Seymour Medal Finalist. In "Taking in a Game", Joseph A. Reaves examines the development of baseball in Korea, the Philippines, chinese mainland, and Taiwan, as well as the more widely known story of baseball in Japan. In this entertaining and informed account, Reaves covers everything from baseball in Qing Dynasty China in the nineteenth century to the 2000 Sydney Olympics bronze-medal match between Japan and Korea. Reaves guides the reader through a history of Asian baseball, the cultures that surround it, and the future of what has become a great Asian game. Joseph A. Reaves is a former journalist who covered Asia for the "Chicago Tribune", "Reader's Digest", and "UPI". He is the author of "Warsaw to Wrigley: A Foreign Correspondent's Tale of Coming Home from Communism to the Cubs".