Columnists and pundits love to write Major League Baseballs obituary, even as the league sets new records for revenue and attendance. Lincoln Mitchell confronts this paradox with a deep and provocative examination of the games past, present, and future. Will Big League Baseball Survive? is a book that all serious fans should read-and the leagues commissioner, perhaps, most of all.-Sam Miller, co-author of The Only Rule Is It Has to Work: Our Wild Experiment Building a New Kind of Baseball Team
In response to the provocative title of Lincoln Mitchells provocative book, we can confidently say, as Mitchell does (spoiler alert): Yes, it almost certainly will. But Mitchells aim here isnt really to answer that question. His goal is far more interesting; by looking at how Major League Baseball has arrived at its current level of popularity and making some educated guesses about the future, Mitchell lays out compelling scenarios for what MLBs future might hold. Winston Churchill said its a mistake to try to look too far ahead, but in Will Big League Baseball Survive? Mitchell looks just far enough to make his book essential reading.-Rob Neyer, author of Rob Neyers Big Book of Baseball Legends: The Truth, the Lies, and Everything Else