Five O'Clock Lightning: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and the Greatest Baseball Team in History, the 1927 New York Yankees

Frommer Sports Historian Journalist And Author Of Remembering Yankee Stadium, Harvey

ISBN 10: 1630760048 / ISBN 13: 9781630760045

Published by Taylor Trade Publishing, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Five O'Clock Lightning: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and the Greatest Baseball Team in History, the 1927 New York Yankees
• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1630760048
• ISBN 13: 9781630760045
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

An entertaining read about the greatest baseball team, the 1927 New York Yankees, who beat up on American League rivals during the regular season and then swept the World Series. With verve, facts, and stories, Harvey Frommer evokes the Murderers' Row of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Miller Huggins, Tony Lazerri, Bob Meusel, and more.

About the Author

Harvey Frommer is a noted sports author and oral historian. He has written more than forty-two sports books including Remembering Yankee Stadium, Remembering Fenway Park, and the autobiographies of Red Holzman, Nolan Ryan, and Tony Dorsett. Cited in the Congressional Record and by the New York State Legislature as a sports historian and journalist, Dr. Frommer is a professor in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program at Dartmouth College. He lives in Lyme, New Hampshire with his wife, Myrna.