num_pages: 288
description: From Honus Wagner to Johnny Bench Baseball As I Have Known It covers sixty-six seasons of Americas national sport. Fred Lieb the dean of baseball writers tells about its heroes rogues controversies and grand plays. He broke in as a sportswriter in the Polo Grounds press box in 1911. In 1933 in the midst of the Depression Lieb was fired from the New York Post and began a freelance career writing about his beloved sport.Baseball As I Have Known It first published in 1977 when Lieb was eighty-nine years old remains a vital record of a glorious bygone era. In superb style he comments on changes in baseball over the decades and tells inside stories about great events and immortal players.
language: English
title: Baseball As I Have Known It
publisher: Bison Books