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S'està carregant… Baseball When the Grass Was Realde Donald Honig
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Fantastic first hand accounts from baseball players of yesteryear- a great one to return to again and again. ( ) 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!}. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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, 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." No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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