Glory of Their Times

Ritter, Lawrence S.

ISBN 10: 0394741064 / ISBN 13: 9780394741062

Published by Vintage (edition Enlarged), 1985

About this Item

The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Seller Inventory # 0394741064-7-1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Glory of Their Times
• Publisher: Vintage (edition Enlarged)
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394741064
• ISBN 13: 9780394741062
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Enlarged.
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

Baseball was different in earlier daysâ tougher, rawer, more intimateâ when giants like Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb ran the bases. In the monumental classic The Glory of Their Times, the golden era of our national pastime comes alive through the vibrant words of those who played and lived the game.

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.