First published in 1957, "My Baseball Diary" chronicles James T. Farrell's enduring passion for the game, from his earliest baseball memory at the age of six through his reminiscences of his first World Series game in 1917 to his later meetings with and recollections of Hall of Famers Ray Schalk, Eddie Collins, Red Faber, Ty Cobb, and Gabby Hartnett.
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First published in 1957, "My Baseball Diary" chronicles James T. Farrell's enduring passion for the game, from his earliest baseball memory at the ...
First published in 1945 as part of the acclaimed Putnam series of team histories, Frank Graham s colorful chronicle presents the Brooklyn Dodgers in all their glory and all their daffiness from the team s beginnings as the Atlantics in 1883 through 1943, with a short summary of the 1944 season.In his foreword, Hall of Fame sports writer Jack Lang writes that in an era that produced for New York sports fans such outstanding sportswriters as Grantland Rice, Sid Mercer, Bill Slocum, Bob Considine, and Tommy Holmes, one of the very best was Frank Graham, whose columns appeared in the "New York...
First published in 1945 as part of the acclaimed Putnam series of team histories, Frank Graham s colorful chronicle presents the Brooklyn Dodgers in a...
In January of 1903, American League president Ban Johnson, his pince-nez riding precariously on the bridge of his nose, raised a glass to toast his young baseball league, which had just received permission to purchase the Baltimore organization and establish a team in New York City. That marked the genesis of the fabulous Yankee franchise (known in 1903 as the Highlanders) as well as the opening chapter of Frank Graham s "The New York Yankees: An Informal History. "One of fifteen team histories commissioned by G. P. Putnam s Sons in the 1940s and 1950s, "The New York Yankees "traces the most...
In January of 1903, American League president Ban Johnson, his pince-nez riding precariously on the bridge of his nose, raised a glass to toast his yo...
The final chapter of Frank Graham s dynamic history of the New York Giants is entitled With One Swipe of His Bat. For sheer drama and a colossal slice of baseball legend, the core of that chapter cannot be toppedBobby Thomson s shot heard round the world, the three-run homer in the 1951 playoff series that determined that the Giantsnot the Dodgerswould win the pennant.Graham, of course, starts at the beginning, 1883, the year the Giants were born. With characteristic panache, Graham tells us how it was: This was New York in the elegant eighties and these were the Giants, fashioned in...
The final chapter of Frank Graham s dynamic history of the New York Giants is entitled With One Swipe of His Bat. For sheer drama and a colossal slice...
An admirer of Pirate president Barney Dreyfuss, prolific baseball writer Frederick G. Lieb consorted with the club s biggest stars, christened the legendary Dreyfuss the first-division man, and produced "The Pittsburgh Pirates, "one of the fifteen celebrated histories of major league teams commissioned by G. P. Putnam s Sons in the 1940s and 1950s. Originally published in 1948, Lieb s history ranges from the ball club s earliest professional days in the late nineteenth century as the Pittsburgh Alleghenies to its spring training session in preparation for the 1948 season, a span that included...
An admirer of Pirate president Barney Dreyfuss, prolific baseball writer Frederick G. Lieb consorted with the club s biggest stars, christened the leg...
Through their triumphs and downfalls, no major league club has had a more colorful history than the Boston Red Sox. Originally published in 1947 as part of G. P. Putnam s Sons fifteen legendary major league team histories, and aided by twenty-seven photographs of legendary players, Frederick G. Lieb s "The Boston Red Sox "chronicles the club s early years from its founding as the Pilgrims in 1901 through the 1946 season.
In the American League s infancy, Boston was a city of champions, winning pennants in 1903, 1904, 1912, 1915, 1916, and 1918. In 1903, the underdog Red Sox, still the...
Through their triumphs and downfalls, no major league club has had a more colorful history than the Boston Red Sox. Originally published in 1947 as...
"Remembering Japanese Baseball: An Oral History of the Game" transports us onto diamonds and into dugouts on the other side of the globe, where the vigorous sportsmanship of the game and the impassioned devotion of its fans transcend cultural and geographic borders and prove that baseball is fast becoming an international pastime. Called "Yakyu," baseball has been played in Japan since the 1890s but has only recently gained a substantial global following. Robert K. Fitts chronicles the nation s distinctive version of the sport as recounted by twenty-five of its players. Fitts s careful...
"Remembering Japanese Baseball: An Oral History of the Game" transports us onto diamonds and into dugouts on the other side of the globe, where the vi...
First published in 1946, Warren Brown's history of the Cubs, like Frederick G. Lieb's history of the St. Louis Cardinals, was commissioned by G. P. Putnam's Sons. Brown begins with the founding of the National League - with the Cubs as a charter member - in 1876 and continues through the 1945 World Series, which the Cubs lost to the Detroit Tigers. Brown, of course, covers the Hall of Fame Cub infield of (Joe) Tinker to (Johnny) Evers to (Frank) Chance, the most memorable double-play combination in the history of baseball. Other legendary Cubs and their illustrious opponents include Grover...
First published in 1946, Warren Brown's history of the Cubs, like Frederick G. Lieb's history of the St. Louis Cardinals, was commissioned by G. P. Pu...
