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One Nation Under Baseball highlights the intersection between American society and Americas pastime during the 1960s, when the hallmarks of the sport - fairness, competition, and mythology - came under scrutiny. John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro examine the events of the era that reshaped the game: the Koufax and Drysdale million-dollar holdout, the encroachment of television on newspaper coverage, the changing perception of ballplayers from mythic figures to overgrown boys, the arrival of the everyman Mets and their free-spirited fans, and the lawsuit brought against team owners by Curt Flood.. One Nation Under Baseball brings to life the seminal figures of the era - including Bob Gibson, Marvin Miller, Tom Seaver, and Dick Young - richly portraying their roles during a decade of flux and uncertainty.



About the Author

John Florio

John Florio was raised in Flushing, NY. He credits the streets of Queens as one of his earliest influences, along with black-and-white movies, old superhero comics, Sports Illustrated, Humphrey Bogart, and the Hardy Boys.A fan of pop fiction and creative nonfiction, Florio is the author of the historical crime novels, Sugar Pop Moon and Blind Moon Alley. With Ouisie Shapiro, he wrote the nonfiction books, War in the Ring, One Nation Under Baseball, and One Punch from the Promised Land. Florio and Shapiro are contributors to the New Yorker and the Atlantic; their work has also been seen in the New York Times, the Undefeated, VICE, and Sports Illustrated. Florio holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Southern Maine, an MA from New York University, and an MBA from St. John's University. He currently serves on the faculty of the Stonecoast MFA creative writing program at the University of Southern Maine.Visit John Florio at johnfloriowriter.com.



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