The first two decades of the 20th century were a time of promise and innocence in America.
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In these pages Mathewson and other great players like John McGraw, Honus Wagner, and Connie Mack discover the realities behind the shining illusions: the burdens of being a hero and the temptations that taint success.
Eric Rolfe Greenberg brilliantly and authentically chronicles the real-life saga of the first national baseball hero, Christy Mathewson, and the fictional story of a Jewish immigrant family of jewelers.
Hardworking immigrants could achieve the American dream; heroes were truly heroic.
The first two decades of the twentieth century were a time of promise and innocence in America.
Greenberg authentically chronicles the real-life saga of the first national baseball hero, Christy Mathewson, and the fictional story of a Jewish immigrant family of jewelers.
Hardworking immigrants could achieve the American dream, and heroes were really heroic.
The first two decades of the 20th century were a time of promise and innocence in America
