Michaelson, Richard. Lipman
Pike, America’s First Home Run King.
Sleeping Bear Press(Cengage) 2011 unp 16.95 978-1-58536-465-1
elem VG-BNe
Son of Dutch immigrants who arrived in New York in the mid-1800s,
Lipman Pike was both the
first Jewish and the first professional (paid) baseball
player in the newly
formed National Association of Base Ball Players. Like all children of
immigrants, Lip wanted to belong to his new country and
found his way through
baseball.
Beginning as a teenager, he quickly developed into a major figure in
the sport as both a slugger and a second baseman. Michaelson’s biography offers
a view of his life through “conversations” between the
characters opening a
window into an historic period of baseball that is
largely overlooked. The book
is greatly enhanced by the wonderful illustrations that
carry out the themes of
Pike’s life. It
ends with an author’s note discussing the place of baseball in
American life during that time. Ogintz, Susan
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