Baseball When the Grass Was Real
by Donald Honig
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Donald Honig crossed the country to meet and interview former big-league ball players. They shared their memories with him and the result is a book packed with nostalgia, statistics, action, revelations--an extraordinary oral history of baseball in the halcyon days beween the two world wars. Babe Ruth, Lefty Grove, Ted Williams, Bob Feller, Dizzy Dean, Jackie Robinson, Lou Gehrig, and many others are brought to life through the recollections of Wes Ferrell, Charlie Gehringer, Elbie Fletcher, show more Bucky Waters, Billy Herman, Cool Papa Bell, Spud Chandler, Pete Reiser, and a host of others. Those were the days when the grass was real, salaries were modest, Bob Feller was America's most famous seventeen-year-old, and idealism was in full swing. "Baseball builds your pride," said pitcher Wes Ferrell, who played it in order "to be a better guy." show lessTags
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2098 Baseball When the Grass Was Real, by Donald Honig (read 9 Sep 1987) The Library Journal's blurb on this book says: "If you read one baseball book this season, make it this one." I really enjoyed it. It is just what 18 players from the 1920', 1930's and 1940's had to say in 1975, and it is full of interesting things. These players are nearly all guys I followed in 1938, 1939, 1940, etc., and so they were familiar to me. One not very familiar to me was George Pipgras, who was born Dec. 20, 1899, in Ida Grove, Iowa. He was a pitcher on the 1927 Yankees. Pete Reiser's story is the 18th in the book, and one of the best. This book is a successor to The Glory of Their Times by Lawrence Ritter--which I must read, {But as of now have not yet!}.
Fantastic first hand accounts from baseball players of yesteryear- a great one to return to again and again.
Dealers are asking in excess of $100 for this book in new condition, which this book is. Yikes!!!
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- Canonical title
- Baseball When the Grass Was Real
- Dedication
- For Larry Ritter
- Blurbers
- Smith, Red
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- Genres
- Sports and Leisure, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 796.357 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Athletic and outdoor sports and games Ball sports Ball and stick sports Baseball
- LCC
- GV865 .A1 .B37 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Recreation. Leisure Recreation. Leisure Sports Ball games: Baseball, football, golf, etc.
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook
- ISBNs
- 4
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