“Readers who loved Thomas Wolf’s The Called Shot are in for another treat. Wolf’s Baseball in the Roaring Twenties sets a rich historical and cultural backdrop for his masterful retelling of the dramatic 1926 World Series between Babe Ruth’s New York Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals of Rogers Hornsby and Pete Alexander, looking also at Rube Foster and the Negro World Series, and the allegations of game-fixing involving Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker.”—Tim Wiles, former director of research for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum

“Thomas Wolf explores both the national pastime and America itself. Everyone is here, from fading diamond star Grover ‘Ol’ Pete’ Alexander to hot rookie Tony ‘Poosh ’Em Up’ Lazzeri, plus the explorers, gangsters, evangelists, and politicians of the day. Wolf paints a broad, fascinating landscape with skill and grace.”—Jim Leeke, author of Big Loosh: The Unruly Life of Umpire Ron Luciano

“Tom Wolf is Frederick Lewis Allen incarnate. What Allen’s Only Yesterday was to the 1920s in its immediate aftermath, Wolf’s Baseball in the Roaring Twenties is to that most fascinating decade a century later. More than just a baseball book, Wolf’s latest uses the 1926 season as a prism through which to interrogate many aspects of the era’s legacy, both near and far from the diamond.”—Clayton Trutor, author of Loserville: How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta—and How Atlanta Remade Professional Sports

“Tom Wolf’s book is an engaging story about baseball in the heart of the Roaring Twenties, situating the 1926 season in the context of the era and telling of the stunning comeback of the Yankees after their collapse in 1925 and the surprising emergence of the Cardinals to win their first-ever World Series title.”—Steve Steinberg, coauthor of Mike Donlin: A Rough and Rowdy Life from New York Baseball Idol to Stage and Screen