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Steve has collaborated on a book with baseball historian Lyle Spatz, which will be published by the University of Nebraska Press, tentatively scheduled to appear in the Spring of 2010. 1921: Babe Ruth, John McGraw, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York focuses on a dramatic and historic season, when the New York Yankees won their first pennant and then faced the New York Giants in the first all-New York World Series.
Set in America's greatest city at the dawn of its most flamboyant decade, this is the story of the 1921 baseball season. It revolves around two sensational pennant races culminating in a dramatic World Series. The book is highlighted by the New York Yankees winning their first pennant and then battling their Polo Grounds landlords and hated rivals, John McGraw’s Giants, in the first all-New York World Series. A subtext of this battle is the charismatic Babe Ruth and his assault on baseball records in the face of McGraw’s disdain for the American League and the Ruth-led new slugging style.
Nineteen twenty-one signaled baseball's comeback from two of its darkest moments: the only death in a major-league game, and the late 1920 revelations of the 1919 Black Sox scandal. Here are two teams fighting for the future direction of the game. They are also battling for the hearts and minds of New Yorkers, as the city rises to the top of the baseball world, where it will remain for much of the 20th century.
Lyle Spatz and Steve Steinberg are baseball historians with an expertise of and passion for early 20th century baseball in New York. They have combined their knowledge to provide the story of and insight into this remarkable season, 1921: Babe Ruth, John McGraw, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York.
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