Reviews for The Glory of Their Times
Review - Glory of Their Times, The
Interviews by the author with baseball players who played in the first four decades of this century. Excellent.
Reviewed by Roger on 2000-11-06 14:46:15
The Glory of Their Timesby Lawrence S. Ritter | |
| Category: |
"Sports" |
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| Pages: | 294 |
| Year of Publication: | 1966 |
| Date Read: | 08/11/2000 |
| Notes: | Shortly after the death of legendary baseball player Ty Cobb in 1961, Ritter, armed with a portable tape recorder, attempted to obtain 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 the story of their times. 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. |
| My Rating: | 9 |