Baseball Between the Lines: Baseball in the Forties and Fifties as Told by the Men Who Played It

by Donald Honig, Ben Bartolone (Read by)

Overview

Here is the exciting story of baseball during and after World War II—when clubs still traveled by train, when night games and artificial lighting began to replace hot afternoons at the ball park, when the major leagues finally took on the talent that had been restricted to the Negro leagues, and when baseball started to become big business. In this companion volume to Baseball When the Grass Was Real, Donald Honig collects the reminiscences of nineteen players, including Robin Roberts, Ralph Kiner, and Enos Slaughter, who lay their careers on the line and also talk about the likes of Jackie Robinson, Joe DiMaggio, and Ted Williams.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781511317870
Publisher:	Brilliance Audio
Publication date:	12/29/2015
Edition description:	Unabridged
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 6.70(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

	Illustrations	13
	Acknowledgments	15
	Introduction	17
	Preface	19
1	Tommy Henrich [1937-50]	23
2	Ewell Blackwell [1942-53, 1955]	46
3	Buddy Hassett [1936-42]	55
4	George Case [1937-47]	63
5	Dick Wakefield [1941-52]	79
6	Kirby Higbe [1937-50]	89
7	Ralph Kiner [1946-55]	105
8	Mickey Vernon [1939-60]	113
9	Johnny Vander Meer [1937-51]	125
10	Bill Werber [1930, 1933-42]	134
11	Bobby Shantz [1949-64]	145
12	Enos Slaughter [1938-59]	154
13	Vic Raschi [1946-55]	171
14	Monte Irvin [1949-56]	181
15	Gene Conley [1952, 1954-63]	193
16	Tommy Holmes [1942-52]	206
17	Herb Score [1955-62]	214
18	Billy Goodman [1947-62]	221
19	Robin Roberts [1948-66]	230