Tells the story of baseball during and after World War II - when clubs still traveled by train, when night games and artificial lighting began to replace hot afternoons at the ball park, when the major leagues finally took on the talent that had been restricted to the Negro leagues, and when baseball started to become big business.
Tells the story of baseball during and after World War II - when clubs still traveled by train, when night games and artificial lighting began to repl...
If you were much of a boy growing up in the Maspeth section of Queens in the late 1930s and 1940s, you had the baseball fever. It seemed contagious, but it struck mostly from within. . . . Often, in later years, when I was writing a long series of books on the game, some well-intended philistine would ask to have explained to him the fascination with baseball. I offered my stock answer: 'If you have to ask the question, you'll never understand the answer.' With this small confession Donald Honig begins his charming memoir of a life devoted to the charms of baseball, including the many great...
If you were much of a boy growing up in the Maspeth section of Queens in the late 1930s and 1940s, you had the baseball fever. It seemed contagious, b...
Beset with unwanted secrets, young Allen Stewart returns home to his small Connecticut town from the crucibles of Antietam and Gettysburg, wounded in body and spirit. He soon finds himself engulfed by the love of two beautiful and passionate young women. As he struggles to decide between them he discovers another, stunning secret that threatens to shatter his life.
Beset with unwanted secrets, young Allen Stewart returns home to his small Connecticut town from the crucibles of Antietam and Gettysburg, wounded in ...
