On the latest Friday Morning Coffee, host Caitlin Malcuit and her guest co-anchor Scott Cassell discuss the passing of Major League Baseball legend Willie Mays, the Rickwood Field game held in Birmingham, Ala., the game's troubled history of racism, and the recent integration of Negro League statistics into baseball's official record book.
Author and historian Kevin Baker (The Fall of a Great American City: New York and the Urban Crisis of Affluence, Paradise Alley) then joins Daniel Ford to chat about his book The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City.
“Modern baseball began in New York.”
To learn more about Kevin Baker, visit his official website.
