Book Review: 'Baseball: An Illustrated History'
© 2010 Alfred A. Knopf On September 21, 2010, New York-based Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of publishing giant Penguin Random House, released Baseball: An Illustrated History, the updated edition of a 1994 book co-written by historian Geoffrey C. Ward and documentarian Ken Burns as a literary companion to Burns' nine-part documentary series Baseball . The new edition was published to coincide with the fall broadcast of Baseball: The Tenth Inning: A Film by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick, the first of several planned sequels to Burns' second entry in the American Trilogy, which began with 1990's The Civil War and concluded with 2001's Jazz. As a result, the 2010 edition includes a new chapter by author Kevin Baker ( America: The History of Us, Sometimes You See It Coming, the City of Fire trilogy). Baseball: An Illustrated History follows the format of other companion volumes written either by Ward alone ( The West: An Illustrated History ) or with his long-time c