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The Glory of Their Times : The Story of Baseball Told By the Men Who Played It
by Lawrence S. Ritter
The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It
The Fifth Season: Tales of My Life in Baseball
by Donald Honig
If you were much of a boy growing up in the Maspeth section of Queens in the late 1930s and 1940s, you had the baseball fever. It seemed contagious, but it struck mostly from within. . . . Often, in later years, when I was writing a long series of books on the game, some well-intended philistine would ask to have explained to him the fascination with baseball. I offered my stock answer: 'If you have to ask the... (more)