Carmichael John Told (12 results)

Paperback. Condition: VG -. paperback.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. The stars included Dizzy Dean, Pepper Martin, Buck Weaver, Lefty O'Doul, Connie Mack, and Jimmy Foxx. Writers included Hal Totten, Ken Smith, Earnest Mehl, and Shirley Povich. In good condition. I have over 100 books on the Best of Baseball and more than 2,500 baseball publications in stock. Discounts are available when you purchase multiple items on the same order.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Hy Rubin (illustrator). a near fine paperback book, no handwriting, no creases or folds to bright covers.

Paper-Covered Boards. Condition: Good. Drawings (illustrator). Reprint. Return address label on fep, aged end papers, else textblock is clean and tight; Bumped and rubbed corners and spine extremities; Lacks dust jacket; 250p.; A "Big League Baseball Library" title. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover.

Trade paperback. Condition: Very good. First Bison Books Printing [stated]. xii, 243, [7] pages. Illustrations. Box scores. Introduction to the Bison Books Edition by Jerome Holtzman. This is a reprint of the original 1945 edition. John P. Carmichael (October 16, 1902 in Madison, Wisconsin - June 6, 1986 in Chicago, Illinois) was a sportswriter who began his career with the Milwaukee Leader in 1924. He moved to Chicago in 1927, where he wrote for the Chicago Herald-Examiner until 1932, then the Chicago Daily News, where his column "The Barbershop" ran for 38 years. Carmichael became sports editor of the Daily News in 1943. He also served as editor for the Who's Who in the Major Leagues from 1938 to 1954. He retired in 1972 and was awarded the J.G. Taylor Spink Award in 1974. That the original 1945 incarnation of My Greatest Day in Baseball has returned to print, courtesy of the University of Nebraska's Bison Books imprint, is as welcome as a hanging curve to a power hitter. It's a cornerstone volume to any serious baseball library. Based in Chicago, John Carmichael was one of America's most celebrated sports columnists from the early '30s to his retirement 40 years later. For My Greatest Day, he collected the first-person rambles of 47 of the best ballplayers of the first half of the century. The roster is a virtual who's who: What aficionado wouldn't want to share a dugout with, among others, Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Frankie Frisch, Satchel Paige, Mel Ott, Rogers Hornsby, and Jimmy Foxx? Sometimes myth triumphs over absolute truth in the players' memories, but baseball has always made room for its legends, and so much antiquated charm manages to seep into these pages as a result. For example, listen to how the Bambino begins his recollection of the famed "Called Shot" (which may or may not have actually happened) against the Cubs in the 1932 World Series: "What blankety-blank fool would-a done what I did that day. When I think of what-a idiot I'd a been if I'd struck out and I could-a, just as well as not because I was mad and I'd made up my mind to swing at the next pitch if I could reach it with a bat. Boy, when I think of the good breaks in my life." Ruth leads off the volume, and merely sets the table. The 46 who follow acquit themselves equitably in bringing My Greatest Day home.

12mo.; tan tweed boards, hardcover; 250 pages; black and white illustrations; endpapers are sunned else very good in an edgeworn, rubbed, and sunned dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. Good condition. (baseball, sports, juvenile non-fiction) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Paperback. Bantam Books #500. Anthology of stories about baseball, featuring stories from Babe Ruth, Leo Dunoken, Mel Ott, and 44 others. Cover by Hy Rubin. Very good-condition. Laminate is lifting slightly along the edges of the front and back covers. Several creases in the laminate on front and back covers (see photo).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Second printing. Very good in lightly worn boards with the year of publication inked in one corner, lacking the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. This is the True First Edition, published by Barnes in 1945 and reprinted and republished a couple of different times. These stories were first published in the Chicago Daily News. Some of the writers included Francis Powers, Earnest Mehl, Ken Smith, Shirley Povich, Earnest Mehl, Lyall Smith, Hal Totten, and Lloyd Lewis. Some of the players were King Carl Hubbell, Johnny Evers, Lefty Gomez, Tris Speaker, Mel Ott, Buck Weaver, Jimmy Archer, Cy Young, Waite Hoyt, Fred Fitzsimmons, Muddy Ruel, Al Simmons, Ed Walsh, Satchel Paige, Hippo Vaughn, Martin Marion, Jimmy Wilson, and Johnny Vander Meer. The front page has a Christmas gift inscription, wishing them a Happy 1946. A very hard book to find in this original First Edition, in good condition. The non price clipped Dust Jacket has numerous rears and chips and is in poor condition, is now in a mylar protector. I have around 110 books on the Best of Baseball and more than 170 books by and about sportswriters in stock. Discounts are available when you purchase multiple items on the same order.