Great American Baseball Stories: Lyons Press Classics

by Jeff Silverman (Editor)

Overview

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
P.G. Wodehouse

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493033836
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	02/01/2019
Series:	Greatest
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	264
File size:	407 KB

About the Author

Jeff Silverman, a former columnist for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, has written for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and several national magazines. He is also editor of The Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told, Lardner on Baseball, The Greatest Golf Stories Ever Told, Classic Golf Stories, Bernard Darwin on Golf, and The Greatest Boxing Stories Ever Told.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Why Base Ball Has Become National Game Albert G. Spalding 1

The Model Base Ball Player Henry Chadwick 11

Casey At The Bat Ernest Lawrence Thayer 17

CASEY'S Revenge Grantland Rice 23

The Color Line Sol While 29

A Whale of A Pastime Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston 37

The RUBE'S Honeymoon Zane Grey 45

How I Pitched The First Curve Candy Cummings 63

Discovering Cy Young Alfred H. Spink 69

Varsity Frank Burt L. Standish 75

Baseball JOE'S Winning Throw Lester Chadwick 89

Mr. Dooley On Baseball Finley Peter Dunne 101

Jinxes and What They Mean To A Ball-Player Christy Mathewson 107

One Down 713 To Go Damon Runyon 125

How I Lost The 1915 World Series Grover Cleveland Alexander 131

The Crab Gerald Beaumont 141

My Roomy Ring Lardner 161

The Longest Game Ralph D. Blanpled 189

Fullerton Says Seven Members of The White Sox Will Be Missing Next Spring Hugh S. Fullerton 195

His Own Stuff Charles E. Van Loan 199

The Pitcher and The Plutocrat P. G. Wodehouse 227

The Slide of Paul Revere Grantland Rice 245

Sources 251

Editorial Reviews

"Every once in a while, a book publisher comes up with a great concept for a series of books that deserve more than superficial recognition. On the long winter nights that lie ahead, such stories make great reading." —The Lexington County Chronicle

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