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Red Smith on baseball : the game's greatest writer on the game's greatest years
- Title
- Red Smith on baseball : the game's greatest writer on the game's greatest years / with a foreword by Ira Berkow.
- Author
- Smith, Red, 1905-1982.
- Publication
- Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | GV863.A1 S675 2000 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Berkow, Ira.
- Description
- xi, 363 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "In this selection of Red's columns - 167 of them, from 1941 to 1981 - baseball fans can recapture some of baseball's greatest moments and most unforgettable characters.
- Jackie Robinson's debut is here, and so are Hank Greenberg's home runs; Enos Slaughter scoring the winning run from first base on a single in the seventh game of the 1946 World Series; Floyd Bevens losing a World Series no-hitter and the game with two outs in the ninth; Bobby Thomson's famous home run that beat the Dodgers and put the Giants into the World Series.".
- "Here too are Stan Musial, Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Boudreau, Yogi Berra, Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges, Mickey Mantle; the sly antics of Charles Dillon Stengel; Durocher's lip; Willie Mays and Bill Veeck, and scores of others."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Baseball > United States > History
- Note
- Includes index.
- ISBN
- 1566632897
- LCCN
- 99053675
- OCLC
- ocm42667777
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries