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Classic baseball stories : ...
Before the sky-scraping salaries--and the high ticket prices that pay for them--players played and fans cheered simply for the love of the game. Nothing captures that spirit better than these twenty two classic pieces about America's favorite pastime
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monografia Rebiun37038061 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun37038061 m o d cr ||||||||||| 070103s2007 nyu go 000 0 eng d 2007920103 1567318746 9781567318746 INARC eng INARC OCLCO OCLCL OCLCQ n-us--- Classic baseball stories twenty-two legendary stories from the diamond edited by Jeff Silverman New York, NY MJF Books/Fine Communications 2007 New York, NY New York, NY MJF Books/Fine Communications 1 online resource (290 pages) 1 online resource (290 pages) Text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Why base ball has become our national game / by Albert G. Spalding -- The model base ball player / by Henry Chadwick -- Casey at the bat / by Ernest Lawrence Thayer -- Casey's revenge / by Grantland Rice -- The color line / by Sol White -- a whale of a pastime / by Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston -- The rube's honeymoon / by Zane Grey -- How I pitched the first curve / By Candy Cummings -- Discovering Cy Young / by Alfred H. Spink -- Varsity Frank / by Burt L. Standish -- Baseball Joe's winning throw / by Lester Chadwick -- Mr. Dooley on baseball / by Finley Peter Dunne -- Jinxes and what they mean to a ball-player / by Christy Mathewson -- One down, 713 to go / by Damon Runyon -- How I lost the 1915 World Series / by Grover Cleveland Alexander -- The Crap / By Gerald Beaumont -- My roomy / by Ring Lardner -- The longest game / by Ralf D. Blanpied -- Fullerton says seven members of the White Sox will be missing next spring / by Hugh S. Fullerton -- His own stuff / by Charles E. Van Loan -- The pitcher and the plutocrat / by P.G. Wodehouse -- The slide of Paul Revere / by Grantland Rice Before the sky-scraping salaries--and the high ticket prices that pay for them--players played and fans cheered simply for the love of the game. Nothing captures that spirit better than these twenty two classic pieces about America's favorite pastime Baseball stories, American Baseball- United States- Anecdotes Récits de base-ball américains Baseball. Baseball stories, American. United States. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq Baseball stories Anecdotes. Baseball stories.