Originally published in 1974 as Baseball the Beautiful: Decoding the Diamond, this new paperback edition has been completely reformatted and contains the full text of the original version. According to author Marvin Cohen, the original publisher took the liberty of changing the book's now restored title "for commercial feasibility and to bring in the lumbering lowbrow audience." Introduction by Jim Bouton. This new edition contains a later essay that did not appear in the original, and the author has also written a new foreword.
Originally published in 1974 as Baseball the Beautiful: Decoding the Diamond, this new paperback edition has been completely reformatted and contains the full text of the original version. According to author Marvin Cohen, the original publisher took the liberty of changing the book's now restored title "for commercial feasibility and to bring in the lumbering lowbrow audience." Introduction by Jim Bouton. This new edition contains a later essay that did not appear in the original, and the author has also written a new foreword.