Baseball's greatest players and personalities spring to life in this collection of succinct poetic portraits by one of America's leading baseball writers. Drawing on a mix of research and imagination, Carney treats the sweep of baseball history and the men who made it as family, all related by the commonality of the diamond game; from Alexander Cartwright to Boston slugger Jim Rice. Over one hundred and thirty gems comprise A Baseball Family Album.

Gene Carney is also the author of Burying the Black Sox (Potomac Books, 2006).