Toporcer, who died in 1989, was the last survivor among the interviewees.

An enlarged edition was issued in 1984, with the additions of George Gibson, Babe Herman, Specs Toporcer, and Hank Greenberg. I've watched Ken Burns' Baseball probably a half-dozen times. Joe Jackson, Babe Ruth, etc) aren't included because they had already died by that time.
I had not heard of a lot of these players before, but now love them as much or more than the players I follow today. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Synopsis submission guide. THE GLORY OF THEIR TIMES was the brainchild of Lawrence Ritter.

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"Oh, the game was very different in my day from what it's like today. Formed during the American Civil War, the 54th Massachusetts was the first African-American unit in the US Army. Ritter travelled 75,000 miles to interview his subjects, sitting for hours listening to them tell their tales into his tape recorder. Some of the interviews were less than enth. You can h. What a neat audiobook! Ritter presented royalties to the 22 men in the original book and their estates, and continued to write them checks into the mid-1980s. I couldn't tell you what I did for my birthday last year. Start by marking “The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It” as Want to Read: Error rating book. The stories told by these players illustrate what life was like during the first few decades of the twentieth century better than any historian could. Most of these players played around the turn of the 20th century. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published

Not everyone hated Cobb. The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It is a 1966 book, edited by Lawrence Ritter, telling the stories of early 20th century baseball. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. With so many reviews of this book pretty much covering everything I had to say about it, I will skip writing a formal review and just say that every good thing this book has brought out in other reviewers, I agree wholeheartedly.

The book is, if I understand correctly, interviews with ballplayers, transcribed from tapes which now reside in the Hall of Fame at Cooperstown. The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It is a book, edited by Lawrence Ritter, telling the stories of early 20th century baseball.It is widely acclaimed as one of the great books written about baseball.

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If you’re a baseball history fan, this is a must listen. Plot Keywords This is, hands down, the best baseball book I have ever read! Yeah, everybody loved that old Dutchman!

One of the all-time great baseball books. You can hear these stories in the words and with the emotion of the men telling it, something totally lost in the print version. I am a huge baseball fan, and really appreciate the history of the game. The stories have such an air of authenticity when Ritter j. The book retells their stories in the first-person, as they were told to Ritter. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published

Then in 1998, working with Henry Thomas and Neal McCabe, Ritter published the audio book that I listened to. I mean it was more fun to play ball then." The author set out to find a handful of aged former baseball players, long forgotten yet residing somewhere in the country with balefuls of memories on the greatest sport of all time. Its a must listen. This is a must-read for baseball fans. Taglines Many of them played for John McGraw's Giants. I don't mean just that the fences were further back and the ball was deader and things like that. [In his preface to the 1986 edition, Ritter mentions his discovery (after failing to find players by contacting teams they had played for) that the best way of finding out where these players might be was to consult phone books in the places they grew up, and contact anyone with the same last name. Great read on the beginning of baseball and the talented players. [Greatest pitcher? Then he transcribed their words into the book. He was also influenced by the works of John and Alan Lomax, who traveled the country in the 1930s and 1940s with tape recorders seeking out old and almost forgotten American folk songs.[2].

Toporcer, who died in 1989, was the last survivor among the interviewees.

This was well before the days of astroturf, designated hitters and multi-million dollar contracts. Basically, the author interviewed various players, turned on a tape recorder and let them talk. Coveleski, Goslin, Hooper and Marquard were elected after the book was published; Goslin and Marquard directly credited Ritter's book.


In a later edition, a handful of new interviews was included. I mean it was more fun to play ball then." The scorecard includes Rube Marquard, Chief Meyers, Goose Goslin, Smoky Joe Wood, Wahoo Sam Crawford, and many more. Rumaan Alam began writing Leave the World Behind with a series of tweets on a secret Twitter account he started two years ago. Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea! It was absolutely delightful!

The print version of this book is basically transcriptions of conversations with several old time ball players who played in the first few decades of the 20th century. | I was nearly crying, I was laughing so hard a few times and it is interesting to learn how different the game was in those days. A fascinating and, at times, moving account of the early days of baseball, told by the players themselves. This reminded me of sitting around the campfire listening to my grandfather spin tales. Perhaps. Welcome back. Lawrence Ritter didn't really "write" this book at all, so the credit must go to the players who told their tales so well within its pages. Every player in the book, along with his wife, has since died.[2]. Wonderful, and as an avid baseball fan myself, many of the names drummed up memories of when I was a kid studiously poring through all the old hall-of-famers' (et al) names and stats with reverence.

You could also do it yourself at any point in time. A positive review by Wilfred Sheed in The New York Times Book Section helped propel the book, though it never hit the best-seller list. As such, I'm the exact target audience for Lawrence S. Ritter's book, The Glory of Their Times: The Story Of The Early Days Of Baseball Told By The Men Who Played It. Refresh and try again. These memories, even if they were inflated, are so crisp. This was seriously such a fun listen. It tells the story of the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, made up of black soldiers - some Northern freemen, some escaped slaves - and led by whites, including Robert Gould Shaw, the son of Boston abolitionists. I don't mean just that the fences were further back and the ball was deader and things like that. [3] This book has been in print for most of the last 35 years, selling 360,000 copies, with royalties of nearly a quarter million dollars. White Sox, Indianapolis (FL),Newark(FL),Giants. This book was absolutely fantastic, and I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone with any interest at all in baseball. Would you like Wikipedia to always look as professional and up-to-date? After being rejected by commercial networks for several years due to Greenspan's refusal to edit for length, the film aired on PBS television in 1977. So each chapter is a different player telling us their memories of their time in baseball. If you are a baseball fan, this book will be enormously interesting and entertaining. A vinyl album containing some of the actual recordings of the interviews was released in the 1970s.