num_pages: 288
description: From Honus Wagner to Johnny Bench, Baseball As I Have Known It covers sixty-six seasons of Americaâ€™s 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 Knew It
titlecomplete: Baseball As I Knew It
genres: Sports, Nonfiction, Memoir, Baseball
ratings_count: 60
publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)