Classic baseball stories
Subtitle: twenty-two legendary stories from the diamond
By: edited by Jeff Silverman
Publisher: MJF Books/Fine Communications
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781567318746
Subjects: American Baseball stories; Baseball; Anecdotes
Description: Before the sky-scraping salaries--and the high ticket prices that pay for them--players played and fans cheered simply for the love of the game. Nothing captures that spirit better than these twenty two classic pieces about America's favorite pastime.
Table of contents: title: Why base ball has become our national game / by Albert G. Spalding; title: The model base ball player / by Henry Chadwick; title: Casey at the bat / by Ernest Lawrence Thayer; title: Casey's revenge / by Grantland Rice; title: The color line / by Sol White; title: a whale of a pastime / by Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston; title: The rube's honeymoon / by Zane Grey; title: How I pitched the first curve / By Candy Cummings; title: Discovering Cy Young / by Alfred H. Spink; title: Varsity Frank / by Burt L. Standish; title: Baseball Joe's winning throw / by Lester Chadwick; title: Mr. Dooley on baseball / by Finley Peter Dunne; title: Jinxes and what they mean to a ball-player / by Christy Mathewson; title: One down, 713 to go / by Damon Runyon; title: How I lost the 1915 World Series / by Grover Cleveland Alexander; title: The Crap / By Gerald Beaumont; title: My roomy / by Ring Lardner; title: The longest game / by Ralf D. Blanpied; title: Fullerton says seven members of the White Sox will be missing next spring / by Hugh S. Fullerton; title: His own stuff / by Charles E. Van Loan; title: The pitcher and the plutocrat / by P.G. Wodehouse; title: The slide of Paul Revere / by Grantland Rice.