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Author: Anthony J. Connor Publisher: Promontory Press ISBN: 9781578660162 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 360
Book Description
This unique book opens a window to the time when baseball, America's favorite pastime, was indeed played mainly for the love of it. Here are recollections of old-time craftsmen such as Grover Cleveland Alexander, Ty Cobb, Joe DiMaggio, Lefty Grove, Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, and Cy Young. Memories and photographs create an informal, sweeping portrait of a century of baseball -- and America. Fans of all ages will discover how baseball became a symbol of joy and loyalty, a sport that reflected the players and their times. Filled with sentiments of baseball at its best, this volume celebrates the national pastime that continues to link one generation to another.
Author: Anthony J. Connor Publisher: Promontory Press ISBN: 9781578660162 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 360
Book Description
This unique book opens a window to the time when baseball, America's favorite pastime, was indeed played mainly for the love of it. Here are recollections of old-time craftsmen such as Grover Cleveland Alexander, Ty Cobb, Joe DiMaggio, Lefty Grove, Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, and Cy Young. Memories and photographs create an informal, sweeping portrait of a century of baseball -- and America. Fans of all ages will discover how baseball became a symbol of joy and loyalty, a sport that reflected the players and their times. Filled with sentiments of baseball at its best, this volume celebrates the national pastime that continues to link one generation to another.
Author: Tom Stanton Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312331184 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 276
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From the author of "The Final Season" comes a true bonding experience at the heart of this book about baseball, family, the Hall of Fame, and the town with which it shares a rich heritage. Photos.
Author: Larry Moffi Publisher: Courier Dover Publications ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 292
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Enshrinement in the Hall of Fame is the ultimate honor for any major leaguer. This rousing oral history tells the story of 17 legendary players who came up just short of Cooperstown: Virgil Trucks, Gene Woodling, Carl Erskine, and others. Collectively, the humorous, engaging, behind-the-scenes stories also tell the tale of baseball in the 1950s. "Great fun." — The New York Times.
Author: Mickey McDermott Publisher: Triumph Books ISBN: 1623681537 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 265
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A memoir by the 1940s pitching sensation looks back at a career playing for thirteen teams in four countries from the 1940s to the 1960s.
Author: Bruce Mowday Publisher: ISBN: 9781569804506 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
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Richie Ashburn: Why the Hall Not? is the story of beloved Philadelphia Phillies player and broadcaster Richie Ashburn and a young fan he befriended as a player. That fan remembered the kindness displayed by Ashburn and in later years reconnected and led a drive--collecting almost 200,000 signatures--to have Major League Baseball reconsider Ashburn for the Hall of Fame. Ashburn was elected to the Hall of Fame and the once-young fan was with Ashburn at Cooperstown during the induction ceremonies. Along the way the young fan became a close friend of Ashburn and the two shared meals and thoughts on baseball.
Author: Lauren Groff Publisher: Hachette Books ISBN: 1401395597 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 384
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"The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass." So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part a contemporary story of a girl's search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story. In the wake of a disastrous love affair with her older, married archaeology professor at Stanford, brilliant Wilhelmina Cooper arrives back at the doorstep of her hippie mother-turned-born-again-Christian's house in Templeton, NY, a storybook town her ancestors founded that sits on the shores of Lake Glimmerglass. Upon her arrival, a prehistoric monster surfaces in the lake bringing a feeding frenzy to the quiet town, and Willie learns she has a mystery father her mother kept secret Willie's entire life. The beautiful, broody Willie is told that the key to her biological father's identity lies somewhere in her family's history, so she buries herself in the research of her twisted family tree and finds more than she bargained for as a chorus of voices from the town's past -- some sinister, all fascinating -- rise up around her to tell their side of the story. In the end, dark secrets come to light, past and present day are blurred, and old mysteries are finally put to rest. The Monsters of Templeton is a fresh, virtuoso performance that has placed Lauren Groff among the best writers of today.
Author: Curt Smith Publisher: Grand Central Publishing ISBN: 044655698X Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 629
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Funny, moving, and each one a diamond in the rough of the American consciousness, the essays in this book are the ultimate baseball conversation that pays homage to the perfect sport, in this perfect companion for all our personal baseball journeys. For some people baseball means a memory-of a certain dusty ball field on a certain summer day, or the first time they walked into a major league park and saw the perfect emerald playing field. For some, baseball means one heartbreaking or heroic moment. And for others, it means a father, a friend, or an old flame who shared a game for a day or for a lifetime. To create this marvelous book, more than 150 writers, athletes, celebrities, politicians, presidents, and pundits were asked what baseball means to them. The answers came back with richness, wonder, insight, and poetry. A fascinating portrait of baseball's beautiful nuances, What Baseball means to me marks the greatest collection of original essays ever written about the game. Accompanied by more than 200 classic baseball photographs, the voices in this book bring alive the game in all its venues-in the past and present, in wartime and hard times, in Cuba, in Wrigley Field or Yankee Stadium. We meet players in a different light: including Paul Molitor returning a baseball to a trusting boy named Dan Jansen, Derek Jeter as depicted by his dad, the Toledo Mud Hens as seen through the eyes of Christine Brennan, and Pedro Martinez talking about baseball as a way of life in his native Dominican Republic. Most of all, we meet ordinary Americans, like the kids Rudy Giuliani grew up with in Brooklyn, or the man in Philadelphia who transforms himself for every home game from mild-mannered Tom Burgoyne to the Phillie Phanatic.
Author: Ralph Carhart Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476637938 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 272
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Rescued in 2010 from the small creek that runs next to Doubleday Field in Cooperstown, New York, a simple baseball launched an epic quest that spanned the United States and beyond. For eight years, "The Hall Ball" went on a journey to have its picture taken with every member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, both living and deceased. The goal? To enshrine the first crowd-sourced artifact ever donated to the Hall. Part travelogue, part baseball history, part photo journal, this book tells the full story for the first time. The narratives that accompany the ball's odyssey are as funny and moving as any in the history of the game.
Author: John B. Holway Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486136477 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 450
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The foremost historian of the "blackball" era spent nearly 10 years researching this acclaimed oral history, interviewing 17 outstanding players including Cool Papa Bell, Buck Leonard, and Willie Wells. Over 80 vintage photographs.
Author: Anthony J. Connor
Author: Anthony J. Connor
Author: Tom Stanton
Author: Larry Moffi
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Author: Bruce Mowday
Author: Lauren Groff
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Author: Ralph Carhart
Author: John B. Holway