Hailed by Sports Illustrated as the ""Edward Gibbon of baseball history,"" Harold Seymour is the first professional historian to produce an authoritative, multivolume chronicle of America's national pastime. The first two volumes of this study--The Early Years and The Golden Age--won universalacclaim. The New York Times wrote that they ""will grip every American who has invested part of his youth and dreams in the sport,"" while The Boston Globe called them ""irresistible."" Now, in The People's Game, Seymour offers the first book devoted entirely to the history of the game outside of the pr