- Paperback: 356 pages
- Publisher: Harpercollins; Reprint edition (Mar 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060972998
- ISBN-13: 978-0060972998
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.5 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,999,202 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This first story was passed down as the gospel truth by sportscaster Bill Stern, and though it has absolutely no basis in fact, it is irresistible: Abraham Lincoln is lying near death following the shooting at Ford's Theatre. Read the first page
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This first story was passed down as the gospel truth by sportscaster Bill Stern, and though it has absolutely no basis in fact, it is irresistible: Abraham Lincoln is lying near death following the shooting at Ford's Theatre. Read the first page
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Format:Paperback
This is not a bad book: It's just very sluggisly paced without much style. In the hands of real sportswriters it could have been a gas. The authors are far too reverential: Cooperstown to them is some kind of holy shrine, and anyone with even a smidgen of skepticism is an Unbeliever. Hey, it's already late 1998. Why write like it's 1958?
Format:Paperback
For those of us who love the history of baseball as much as the game itself, this is a, "must get".
I found all the anecdotes from the PBS Ken Burns documentary "Baseball" here plus a bunch that didn't make it. (You may recall, that Daniel Okrent was heavily featured in the PBS series)
The only missing element that would cause me to bump my ratings to 5 stars would be(you guessed it) photos.
With the unearthing of Charles Conlon's negatives they would have a trove of other 18,000 images to choose from - most of which have yet to be published in this half of the century. (Only a fraction of these incredible images made it into the Abram's book, "The Golden Age of Baseball")
Of course, this would drive the cost of the book up and possibly detract from the wonderful stories here - I wonder out loud if it isn't perfect just the way it is...
Never the less, you will be all the poorer if this book in not in your baseball library, photos or not!
/fwa
Format:Paperback
This book is truly the best historical baseball book you could possibly read, in my opinion not intended to be read cronologically but rather reading the anecdotes whenever you feel like it, it's funny, charismatic and it would make an incredible gift for the true baseball fan, it's for kids, adults, seniors and everyone who really apprecciates baseball like I do
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