Orlando Sentinel, March 3, 2001
Book Description
Among the fans in the ballparks that summer were two recent college graduates who had decided to indulge their baseball fantasy--to see a game in all thirty major league ballparks--before launching into their careers and going their separate ways. To make the adventure more interesting, Brad Null and Dave Kaval decided to visit the thirty stadiums in less than forty days.
"The Summer That Saved Baseball" is the chronicle of their adventures, including their experiences at the ballparks and at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, the Louisville Slugger Museum, and the Field of Dreams in Dyersville, Iowa. The notoriety the authors gained while making this pilgrimage earned them the attention of media across the nation and special treatment at the ballparks, too.
Naturally, Null and Kaval include rankings of the parks in various categories, as well as suggestions for other fans interested in undertaking a similar or less ambitious trip. As a bonus, accounts of visits to the ballparks opened in 1999 and 2000 are included so that today's fans will have a barometer for visits to these latest shrines to the game. Kaval and Null's stories focus on all that is good and enjoyable in major league baseball and are illustrated throughout with photographs from this summer that saved the game.
