Tales From Baseballs Golden Age

Author : Gene Fehler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780756770969
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales from Baseball's Golden Age written by Gene Fehler and published by . This book was released on 2004-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales from Baseball's Golden Age is a collection of anecdotes about baseball in the 1940s and '50s. The author interviewed nearly 100 former Major League Baseball players about their experiences in the era that purists consider to be the Golden Age of Baseball. For longtime fans who are enamored of baseball history and tradition, this book should have special appeal. Each entry is prefaced by a concise player profile, leading into an anecdote that is written entirely in the player's own words. Among the players interviewed are Ralph Kiner, Bobby Thomson, Bill Virdon, Jerry Coleman, and Tim McCarver. Tales from Baseball's Golden Age promises to be a book that readers won't want to put down. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Gene Fehler
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781582614816
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Tales from Baseball's Golden Age written by Gene Fehler and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2002 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the runaway success of his Tales from Baseball's Golden Age, Gene Fehler presents his second installation, More Tales from Baseball's Golden Age. It is a collection of anecdotes, memories, and stories from the men who played baseball during its heyday, in the '40s and '50s. Stories include reminiscences about playing with or against baseball legends such as Hank Aaron, Mickey Mantle, Satchel Paige, and Ted Williams and interviews with nearly two dozen players who were not heard from in Tales from Baseball's Golden Age. Fehler combines lifetime statistics and personal interviews from over 50 Hall of Famers, All-Stars, and ordinary players to create a memorable book sure to delight any baseball fan, young or old.

Author : Gene Fehler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780756770945
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Tales from Baseball's Golden Age written by Gene Fehler and published by . This book was released on 2004-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decades of the 1940s and ‘50s are considered by many fans to be baseball's Golden Age. This volume features stories and anecdotes by dozens of players from those decades. We hear in the words of such players as Leo "the Lip" and Charlie "Banjo" Grimm, Casey "Purple Pants" Stengel, Charlie "I" Dressen, Danny Gardella, "Sugar" Cain, Eddie Gaedel, Billy Hunter, Bill Veeck, Bobo Newsome, Danny Litwhiler, Ace Adams, and Red Murff what baseball was like before expansion and contraction, before domed stadiums, airplane travel, agents, and the DH. Players share personal moments as well as the famous baseball moments in which they participated. They speak of the fun they had playing baseball. B&W photos.

Author : Gene Fehler
Publisher : Sports Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781582612478
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales from Baseball's Golden Age written by Gene Fehler and published by Sports Pub. This book was released on 2000 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to the '40s and '50s through the words of 56 players from those years.

Author : Robert Weintraub
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316205907
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Victory Season written by Robert Weintraub and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The triumphant story of baseball and America after World War II. In 1945 Major League Baseball had become a ghost of itself. Parks were half empty, the balls were made with fake rubber, and mediocre replacements roamed the fields, as hundreds of players, including the game's biggest stars, were serving abroad, devoted to unconditional Allied victory in World War II. But by the spring of 1946, the country was ready to heal. The war was finally over, and as America's fathers and brothers were coming home, so too were the sport's greats. Ted Williams, Stan Musial, and Joe DiMaggio returned with bats blazing, making the season a true classic that ended in a thrilling seven-game World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals. America also witnessed the beginning of a new era in baseball: it was a year of attendance records, the first year Yankee Stadium held night games, the last year the Green Monster wasn't green, and, most significant, Jackie Robinson's first year playing in the Brooklyn Dodgers' system. The Victory Season brings to vivid life these years of baseball and war, including the littleknown "World Series" that servicemen played in a captured Hitler Youth stadium in the fall of 1945. Robert Weintraub's extensive research and vibrant storytelling enliven the legendary season that embodies what we now think of as the game's golden era.

Author : Robert Kravetz
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480874892
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baby Boomer Baseball written by Robert Kravetz and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball has enchanted generations of players and fans with its charm and has been a constant in American life since the nineteenth century. Growing up as a boy in the 1950s and 1960s, Robert Kravetz learned the art of fending for himself on the baseball diamond. There, he and fellow players settled arguments and honed their baseball skills, learning the intricacies of a beautifully simplistic game. His baseball hero—and the hero for millions of other boys—was Mickey Mantle. At seven years old, he would rip open the morning newspaper to see if Mickey had beaten out Al Kaline for the runs batted in part of the Triple Crown and Ted Williams for the batting average honors. In Baby Boomer Baseball, Kravetz relives his youth, sharing fascinating tales from the golden era of baseball and observing the game’s changes through its steroid era and beyond. Whether Kravetz is drawing on his awe for the game as a boy or on personal discussions with Gary Carter, Hank Bauer, Tommy John, Bob Mathias, Clete Boyer, Tim McCarver, and the former director of research of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Tim Wiles, he shares stories that will rekindle your love for America’s pastime.

Author : Peter Golenbock
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538154889
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whispers of the Gods written by Peter Golenbock and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anyone who has love for the game of baseball will enjoy this remarkable book." Library Journal, Starred Review In Whispers of the Gods, bestselling author Peter Golenbock brings to life baseball greats from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s through timeless stories told straight from the players themselves. Like the enduring classic The Glory of Their Times, this book features the reminiscences of baseball legends, pulled from hundreds of hours of taped interviews with the author. Roy Campanella talks about life in the Negro Leagues before coming up to the Brooklyn Dodgers. Ted Williams recounts why he believes Shoeless Joe Jackson belongs in the Hall of Fame. Tom Sturdivant provides vivid memories of Casey Stengel, Mickey Mantle, and other Yankee icons. Other voices include Phil Rizzuto, Jim Bouton, Monte Irvin, Stan Musial, Ron Santo, Rex Barney, Ellis Clary, Roger Maris, Ed Froelich, Marty Marion, Jim Brosnan, Gene Conley, and Kirby Higbe. The players interviewed were All-Stars, Hall of Famers, and heroes to many, and their impact on the national pastime is still seen to this day. Baseball history comes alive through the stories shared in Whispers of the Gods, offering a fascinating account of the golden age of baseball.

Author : Allen Barra
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 030771649X
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mickey and Willie written by Allen Barra and published by Crown. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed sportswriter Allen Barra exposes the uncanny parallels--and lifelong friendship--between two of the greatest baseball players ever to take the field. Culturally, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays were light-years apart. Yet they were nearly the same age and almost the same size, and they came to New York at the same time. They possessed virtually the same talents and played the same position. They were both products of generations of baseball-playing families, for whom the game was the only escape from a lifetime of brutal manual labor. Both were nearly crushed by the weight of the outsized expectations placed on them, first by their families and later by America. Both lived secret lives far different from those their fans knew. What their fans also didn't know was that the two men shared a close personal friendship--and that each was the only man who could truly understand the other's experience.

Author : Will Leitch
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 1401395899
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Are We Winning? written by Will Leitch and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2010-05-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious tribute to baseball and to the fathers and sons who share the love of the game. Are We Winning? is built around a trip to Wrigley Field to watch the St. Louis Cardinals play the Chicago Cubs--the "lovable losers" to most fans but the hated enemy to the Leitch men. Along for the ride are both Will's father, the gregarious but not-exactly demonstrative Midwestern titan who, despite being a die-hard Cards fan and living his whole life just 200 miles south of Chicago, had never been to Wrigley Field before this game, and Will's college friend, a lifelong Cubs fan. The Cardinals have recently fallen out of the pennant race, and the Cubs, as it turns out, are attempting to clinch the division on this Saturday afternoon in September. The pitchers are Ted Lilly for the Cubs and Joel Pineiro for the Cardinals. It's just a regular game. Play ball. The book unfolds in half-inning increments where Will gives one-of-a-kind insight on the past, present, and future of the game--from Pujols' unrivaled greatness to the myth that steroids have ruined baseball. Along the way, he shares memories of his father and growing up in the small town of Mattoon, including the year his dad coached his Little League team and nicknamed a scrawny kid "Bulldog," and an unlikely postgame episode involving a biker bar and Mr. Holland's Opus. And there is beer. Lots and lots of beer. Are We Winning? is a book about the indelible bond that links fathers and sons. For the Leitch men it's baseball that holds them together--not that either of them would ever be so weak as to admit it. No matter how far apart they are or what's going on in their lives, they'll always be able to talk about baseball. It's the story of being a fan, a story about fathers, sons, and legacies. And one perfect game.

Author : Peter Golenbock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781538154878
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whispers of the Gods written by Peter Golenbock and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Peter Golenbock brings to life baseball greats from the 1940s, '50s, and '60s with Whispers of the Gods. Like the enduring classic The Glory of Their Times, this book is based on hundreds of hours of taped interviews featuring the likes of Roy Campanella, Ted Williams, Phil Rizzuto, Jim Bouton, Stan Musial, and more.