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

Ritter, Lawrence S.

 
9780394741062: The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It

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Présentation de l'éditeur

“Almost perfect . . . a vivid, gentle, and humorous narrative, accompanied by marvelous photographs.”
— Roger Angell, New Yorker

“I could happily reread every summer for the rest of my life that greatest of all baseball books, The Glory of Their Times.”
— Stephen Jay Gould, New York Times Book Review

“Warm, happy, exciting . . . The day after I finished it I started reading it all over again.”
— Ted Williams

From Lawrence Ritter (The Image of Their Greatness, The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time), comes one of the bestselling, most acclaimed sports books of all time, The Glory of Their Times—now a Harper Perennial Modern Classic.

Biographie de l'auteur

Lawrence S. Ritter (1922-2004) was chairman of the Department of Finance at the Graduate School of Business Administration of New York University. He collaborated with fellow baseball historian Donald Honig on The Image of Their Greatness and The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time but is best known for The Glory of Their Times, one of the most famous sports books ever published.

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