Description 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.
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..
Wodehouse 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.
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Van Loan P.
Blanpied Charles E.
Standish Lester Chadwick Finley Peter Dunne Christy Mathewson Damon Runyon Grover Cleveland Alexander Gerald Beaumont Ring Lardner Hugh Fullerton Ralph D.
Spink Burt L.
Fredrick Funston Zane Grey Candy Cummings Alfred H.
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Spalding Henry Chadwick Ernest Lawrence Thayer Grantland Rice Sol White Brig.
Relive the golden era of Baseball with timeless Classics from: Albert G.
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.
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.
Description 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
