| Reviews Journal of Sports History Review World Wide Collector's Digest Review NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture |
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| Lights On! The Wild, Century-Long Saga of Night Baseball |
| Nominated for the CASEY Award: Best Baseball Book of 1997 |
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| Lights On! chronicles the rise of night baseball, a trend that transformed the national pastime. The road to night baseball has not always been smooth, but some of the bumps make the best stories. David Pietrusza balances precise research with an eye for intriguing anecdotal material. From the first night game at Nantasket Beach between two department store teams to the experiments of barnstorming teams, from the bush leagues and the minor leagues to the eventual conversion of the major league clubs, Pietrusza offers insight into this fascinating phase of baseball history. He concludes with an analysis of the effects of nighttime play on the sport. Lights On! will appeal to baseball fans and students of sports history alike. |
| Foreword by Hall of Famer Enos Slaughter |
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| "Wow, talk about exhaustive research. As president of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), author Pietrusza enlisted the aid of a number of baseball historians in the preparation of this definitive work on the history of night baseball. What an excellent work 'Lights On!' is. . . . "A ton of related footnotes and anecdotes makes the 'Lights On!' story very pleasurable reading. It's a super addition to the world of baseball literature." —World Wide Collectors Digest "Lively, entertaining, informative . . . chockful of anecdotes and interesting facts" —NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture |
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