During the baseball era, mid 19thcentury to WWII, America was evolving, and with it was baseball. Sid’s takes us behind the scenes and provides the back story. His plot moves not by extended description, but by conversation. His characters move the narrative by their words.
Sid uses spray hitter, great pitching, and power batter techniques to make his points through the staccato and impact of his sentences. He constructs the conversations, scenes, and vignettes to detail inside baseball and its relation to sports journalism, American westward expansion, and social issues such as race relations, enterprise activities, and career choices. His fertile imagination takes us into international developments, domestic politics, and war strategy through baseball connections.
This is a fun book for all generations, It will especially appeal to baseball fans and teenagers interested in sports and society. It would make a great graduation, anniversary, and birthday gift.

Goldstein digs out his story the way a runner digs out his mad dash for home plate when the series hangs in the balance. He unlocks amazing baseball secrets – the player who used an exhibition tour to spy on Japan before WW2 – the power of baseball to bring the nation together in time of war – and he sees it all through the eyes of the players themselves.
Forget your field-level seat on the first base line; reading this book is like sitting in the dugout, listening to the guys talk and complain and exult as the game unfolds. And then having a beer with them afterward as they discuss what went wrong and what went right, and what those idiots in the front office think they’re doing, and the sheer joy of getting wood, hitting the ball just right, and watching it sail over the heads of the opposing team. Eat your hearts out boys; victory is sweet. Goldstein brings you baseball in all its guts and glory, told with a love for the game that every baseball fan will instantly recognize. A Team of Their Own is a winner. Read one story at a time, or binge-read them all. This book will help you remember everything that is good about America.