The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It
Baseball was different in earlier days-tougher, rawer, more intimate-when giants like Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb ran the bases. In the monumental classic The Glory of Their Times, the golden era of our national pastime comes alive through the vibrant words of those who played and lived the game.\ \ \ More than 40 years ago, determined to do for baseball what John and Alan Lomax did for vernacular American music, he began interviewing ballplayers who'd been active in the...
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Great news for baseball fans—here is Lawrence Ritter's remarkable and universally hailed classic, now available in trade paperback. This is the enlarged edition, with 120 fantastic and rare photographs, of the 1966 original. In the words of 26 players, it describes what it was like to play major league baseball at the turn of the century and in the decades shortly thereafter Library Journal Shortly after the death of legendary baseball player Ty Cobb in 1961, Ritter, armed with a portable tape recorder, attempted to obtain an oral history of early-20th-century baseball from Cobb's contemporaries. The edited transcription of the interviews he obtained became a best seller and went to several editions. This audio, accompanied by a 32-page booklet of photos, is a modern release (also available on CD) of Ritter's interviews with Fred Snodgrass, Sam Crawford, Hans Lobert, Rube Bressler, Chief Meyers, Davy Jones, Rube Marquard, Joe Wood, Lefty O'Doul, Jimmy Austin, Goose Goslin, and Bill Wambsganss, as selected by producers Henry W. Thomas and Neal McCabe. It is quirky, charming, witty, and fun. What a love for baseball they all had! An essential purchase for all sports audio collections.--Cliff Glaviano, Bowling Green State Univ. Libs., OH
Chapter One\ \ Rube Marquard\ \ \ \ After twilight had gone, in the first darkness of the night, a freight train rumbled into the station. When the engine was switching cars on the sidetrack, he crept along the side of the train, pulled open the side door of an empty boxcar, and awkwardly and laboriously climbed in. He closed the door. The engine whistled. He was lying down, and in the darkness he smiled.\ — Jack London, The Apostate
Preface to the New Enlarged Edition ixOriginal Preface xv1 Rube Marquard [1908-25] 12 Tommy Leach [1898-1918] 203 Davy Jones [1901-15] 344 Sam Crawford [1899-1917] 475 George Gibson [1905-18] 706 Jimmy Austin [1909-22] 787 Fred Snodgrass [1908-16] 918 Stanley Coveleski [1916-28] 1179 Al Bridwell [1905-15] 12410 Harry Hooper [1909-25] 139l1 Joe wood [1908-22] 15412 Chief Meyers [1909-17] 17013 Hans Lobert [1903-17] 18514 Rube Bressler [1914-32] 19815 Babe Herman [1926-45] 20116 Edd Roush [1913-31] 21817 Bill Wambsganss [1914-26] 23118 Sam Jones [1914-35] 24119 Bob O'Farrell [1915-35] 25120 Specs Toporcer [1921-28] 25921 Lefty O'Doul [1919-34] 27122 Goose Goslin [1921-38] 27923 Willie Kamm [1923-35] 29024 Heinie Groh [1912-27] 29925 Hank Greenberg [i933-47] 30626 Paul Waner [1926-45] 332Acknowledgments 249Picture Credits 251Index 353
\ Library JournalShortly after the death of legendary baseball player Ty Cobb in 1961, Ritter, armed with a portable tape recorder, attempted to obtain an oral history of early-20th-century baseball from Cobb's contemporaries. The edited transcription of the interviews he obtained became a best seller and went to several editions. This audio, accompanied by a 32-page booklet of photos, is a modern release also available on CD of Ritter's interviews with Fred Snodgrass, Sam Crawford, Hans Lobert, Rube Bressler, Chief Meyers, Davy Jones, Rube Marquard, Joe Wood, Lefty O'Doul, Jimmy Austin, Goose Goslin, and Bill Wambsganss, as selected by producers Henry W. Thomas and Neal McCabe. It is quirky, charming, witty, and fun. What a love for baseball they all had! An essential purchase for all sports audio collections.--Cliff Glaviano, Bowling Green State Univ. Libs., OH\ \
