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Less than 13 years after baseball's most joyous marriage was consummated, it ended in 1965 with the sport's most acrimonious divorce, as a team, a city, a country and a baseball industry ripped themselves from their moorings. The Milwaukee Braves' accomplishments from 1953-59 were collectively hailed as the "Miracle of Milwaukee," and geographically and economically altered the landscape of major league baseball forever. Then the miracle became a mirage. Attendance plummeted, the team declined, and new ownership bought the franchise with the cynical and ill-concealed intent of moving it to...

Chuck Hildebrand's "Hey, I Was At That Game A California Baseball Odyssey, 1965-91" is built around the scorebooks kept by the author as he explored and experienced every layer of baseball in America's most populous state - first as a young minor league fan and later as a journalist covering major league baseball during its Bay Area apex. It is a diary originally transcribed in baseball's first language, created by Henry Chadwick when he invented the baseball box score in 1859, and it is a chronology written from the same standpoint as Roger Angell's classic baseball anthologies, but seen...