Research Catalog

Title

Great American baseball stories / edited by Jeff Silverman.

Publication

Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2019]

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Details

Additional Authors

Silverman, Jeff, 1947-

Description

xii, 252 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

"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, and P.G. Wodehouse"--

Series Statement

Lyons Press Classics.

Uniform Title

Lyons Press classics.

Subject

• Baseball > Anecdotes
• Baseball > United States > History
• Baseball players > United States > Biography
• Baseball players
• Baseball stories, American
• Baseball
• United States

Genre/Form

• Anecdotes.
• Biography.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN

• 9781493039012
• 1493039016
• 9781493033836 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2018041815
• 99982173637

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries