The first two decades of the twentieth century were a time of promise and innocence in America.
In these pages Mathewson and other great players like John McGraw, Honus Wagner, and Connie Mack discover the realitie.
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