The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (592 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1598875922 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 204 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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A retrospective on baseball's players in the earlier days orf the game. Steven Peterson This is a wonderful book, nostalgic but still powerful. The author tape recorded interviews with many old-time baseball players in the mod 1960s. He essential transcribed the recordings and published them in this book. The result is a first person narrative by many players from the very late 1800s through the 1940s. In a later edition, a handful of new interviews was included. The result is very interesting and even riveting.One way of addressing this is simply to note. Nesmuck said Told by the men who played the game. All the hype about this book is true. It's the best book about baseball ever written. And, it's told by the players themselves, warts and all. It's an oral history of the early days of the game.Honus Wagner talks about playing third base with a first baseman's glove. One coach talked about sending the batboy down to the saloon to fetch a player when it was his time to bat. The book itself isn't so much a history of baseball with loads of statistics, it's a book about t. For the connoisseur This is for the baseball connoisseur. I'm sure not everyone will enjoy listening to old men talk about the early days of baseball. Most people aren't interested in anything that happened more than ten years ago. But if you're interested in listening to stories of the very early years of baseball, then this is for you. Most of them are actually fascinating.
I mean it was more fun to play ball then." - Davy JonesFirst published in 1966, The Glory of Their Times is a universally hailed classic. This new audio compilation of the original interviews is great news for baseball fans and anyone who loves old-time tales of America's national pastime.. He interviewed more than two dozen players from the turn of the century and the decades shortly thereafter, including many now in the Baseball Hall of Fame, then let them tell their own stories, in their own words. I don't mean just that the fences were further back and the ball was deader and things like that. Ritter's six year quest to find the heroes of a bygone era. "Oh, the game was very different in my day from what it's like today. The scorecard includes Rube Marquard, Chief Meyers, Goose Goslin, Smoky Joe Wood, Wahoo Sam Crawford, and many more. A loving look back at the way baseball used to be, and the legends who played the game--immortals like Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, and many others--it's a delightfully evocative work full of fascinating characters and wonderful anecdotes.This is also the story of author Lawrence S
The voices of the game's distant past continue to reverberate with a distinct freshness in Lawrence S. Ritter's The Glory of Their Times. An oral history of the game in the first two decades of the century, Glory sends out its impressive roster of players to tell their own stories, and what stories they tell--the story of their times as well as of their game; the scorecard includes Rube Marquard, Babe Herman, Stan Coveleski, Smoky Joe Wood, and Wahoo Sam Crawford. . A delight from cover to cover, Glory is the next best thing to having been there in the days when the ball may have been dead, but the personalities were anything but