The Game

The incredible inside story of baseball's last twenty years--and how they completely changed the game. In the fall of 1992, America's national pastime is in crisis. Revenues are flat-lining, its fan base is eroding, and the sport will soon do the unthinkable: cancel a World Series for the first time in its history. The owners are at war with each other, their never-ending battle with the players has turned America against both sides, and the players' growing addiction to steroids will threaten the game's very foundation. It's the genius of three men--Commissioner Bud Selig, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, and union leader Don Fehr--and their struggle for power that rescues the game from self destruction. Played against a tableau of stunning athletic feats, high-stakes labor wars, and back-room political deals--with a supporting cast that includes Barry Bond and Mark McGwire, Joe Torre and Derek Jeter, George Bush and George Mitchell--THE GAME is a rigorously researched account of how Selig, Steinbrenner, and Fehr turned disaster into baseball's Golden Age.