The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688039014 ISBN 13: 9780688039011

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1984

Autobiographical accounts of accomplished baseball players of the early twentieth century

Review:

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.

From the Back Cover:

The Story of the
Early Days of Baseball
Told by the Men Who
Played It