| Great American Baseball Stories: Lyons Press Classics Contributor(s): Silverman, Jeff (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1493039016 ISBN-13: 9781493039012 Publisher: Lyons Press OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Baseball - Essays & Writings - Biography & Autobiography |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2018041815 |
| Series: Greatest |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.75 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Before multimillion-dollar salaries, luxury boxes, and player strikes became synonymous with professional sports, there existed the belief in playing simply "for the love of the game." Nothing captures that spirit better than these twenty classic pieces about America's favorite pastime. Collected here are the writings of Ring Lardner, Zane Grey, the Giants' immortal Christy Mathewson, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Finley Peter Dunne (who for a time was America's most popular humorist after Mark Twain), Burt Standish (creator of that all-American hero, Frank Merriwell), and many more. Baseball's golden era may have long since passed, but in the pages of Great American Baseball Stories, you can still sit in the bleachers for a nickel. Relive the golden era of baseball with timeless classics from: Albert G. Spalding Henry Chadwick Ernest Lawrence Thayer Grantland Rice Sol White Brig. Gen. Fredrick Funston Zane Grey Candy Cummings Alfred H. Spink Burt L. Standish Lester Chadwick Finley Peter Dunne Christy Mathewson Damon Runyon Grover Cleveland Alexander Gerald Beaumont Ring Lardner Hugh Fullerton Ralph D. Blanpied Charles E. Van Loan P.G. Wodehouse |