The Washington Post, November 7th, 2004
AMERICA'S GAME The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured a Nation By Michael MacCambridge. Random House. 552 pp. $27.95 Baseball sentimentalists (of whom, in the chattering classes, there are all too many) aren't going to like it, but Michael MacCambridge has got this right: Baseball may be the National Pastime, but put Past in italics. Professional football is America's game, and it has been for quite a while. In 1960, MacCambridge reports, a Harris Poll found that 36 percent of those interviewed picked baseball as their favorite sport, a fat lead over pro football's 21 percent. A decade la...
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