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Review title: You Won't Smell The Mustard With This One
Product review: A mustard stain might not show on this hardcover book, but I doubt if Dr. Seymour's trips to the ballyard allow for hot dogs anyway. Maybe baseball really should be kept away from academics, who have a tendency to suck the life out of the game. The Notre Dame history professor who wrote the "most scholarly" life of Babe Ruth at least knew how to turn a phrase, if not "two." If Dr. Seymour is a fan he keeps it carefully under wraps.The best thing about this book is Seymour's careful "deconstruction" of some of baseball's cherished myths, chiefly Abner Doubleday's "invention" of it. The worst is that Seymour is altogether too enamored of the institutional side of the game. In the dialectic of style and structure he is so enmeshed in the structural aspects, the business aspects, even the legal aspects of the game, that the knothole gang is supplanted by the paneled boardroom. I wanted baseball lore but instead I got corporate logic. Not a satisfying read.
