The Game ─ Inside the Secret World of Major League Baseball's Power Brokers

The astonishing inside story of baseball's last twenty years--and how they completely changed the game.

In the fall of 1992, America's national pastime is in crisis. Revenues are flat-lining, its fan base is eroding, and the sport will soon do the unthinkable: cancel a World Series for the first time in its history. The owners are at war with each other, their never-ending battle with the players has turned America against both sides, and the players' growing addiction to steroids will threaten the game's very foundation. It's the genius of three men--Commissioner Bud Selig, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, and union leader Don Fehr--and their struggle for power that rescues the game from self destruction. Played against a tableau of stunning athletic feats, high-stakes labor wars, and back-room political deals, THE GAME is the account of how Selig, Steinbrenner, and Fehr turned disaster into baseball's Golden Age.

Jon Pessah was a founding editor of ESPN the Magazine. He has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, managed the sports departments for Newsday and the Hartford Courant, and edited, wrote, and ran the investigative team for ESPN the Magazine.