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The Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told: Thirty Unforgettable Tales from the Diamond
The Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told Thirty Unforgettable Tales from the Diamond Author:Jeff Silverman (Editor) At a 1931 barnstorming exhibition game in Tennessee, a seventeen-year-old pitcher for the Chattanooga Lookouts struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig back to back. Her name was Jackie Mitchell--"organized baseball's first girl pitcher." On September 9, 1965, Sandy Koufax made baseball history by pitching his fourth perfect game. In Ju... more »ly 1970, a stripper rushed onto the field at Riverfront Stadium to kiss Johnny Bench, temporarily disrupting a game attended by President Nixon and his family. These are just some of the great, quirky, and comic moments in the annals of baseball recorded in THE GREATEST BASEBALL STORIES EVER TOLD. Here also are profiles of such legendary figures as Joe DiMaggio, Pete Rose, and Yogi Berra, essays that explore the complexities and pleasures of the game, even an excerpt from the movie Bull Durham. This is the perfect book for anyone who has ever played so much as a game of catch.
Who's on first? / Abbott & Costello --
Wait till next year / Doris Kearns Goodwin --
The web of the game / Roger Angell --
Alibi Ike / Ring Lardner --
Ty Cobb's wild ten-month fight to live / Al Stump --
Hub fans bid kid adieu / John Updike --
Casey at the Congress --
Going to the moon / Bill Barich --
The birth of Joe Hardy / Douglass Wallop --
A Scotchman, a phantom, and a shiny blue jacket / Willie Morris --
On Jackie Robinson / Red Barber --
A Mickey Mantle koan / David James Duncan --
The catch / Arnold Hano --
Old well-well / Zane Grey --
His most prized possession was that '54 Eddie / Ron Shelton --
Keith / Pete Hamill --
Baseball players called her Ma / James T. Farrell --
The pitcher and the plutocrat / P.G. Wodehouse --
One down, 713 to go / Damon Runyon --
Roger Maris / Jimmy Cannon --
Home run fever / Gary Smith --
Woman whiffs Ruth and Gehrig / William E. Brandt --
The silent season of a hero / Gay Talese --
A native son's thoughts / Richard Ben Cramer --
K as in Koufax / Vin Scully --
The rocky road of Pistol Pete / W.C. Heinz --
One vote for Morganna / Red Smith --
Yogi / Roy Blount, Jr. --
The thrill of the grass / W.P. Kinsella --
The green fields of the mind / A. Bartlett Giamatti« less