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Paperback Baseball Between the Lines: Baseball in the Forties and Fifties as Told by the Men Who Played It Book

ISBN: 0803272685

ISBN13: 9780803272682

Baseball Between the Lines: Baseball in the Forties and Fifties as Told by the Men Who Played It

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Here is the exciting story of baseball during and after World War II when clubs still traveled by train, when night games and artificial lighting began to replace hot afternoons at the ball park, when the major leagues finally took on the talent that had been restricted to the Negro leagues, and when baseball started to become big business.In this companion volume to "Baseball When the Grass Was Real," also available as a Bison Book, Donald Honig...

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A GREAT NOSTALGIC TRIP BACK IN TIME

THIS BOOK IS TRULY A TIME MACHINE FOR BASEBALL FANS. THIS A COLLECTION OF STORIES AND BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES ABOUT 19 MEN WHO PLAYED THE GAME DURING THE GOLDEN ERA OF BASBALL. (1940-1950'S)INCLUDED IN THIS ARE TOMMMY HENRICH, RALPH KINER, ENOS SLAUGHTER, HERB SCORE AND ROBIN ROBERTS. THIS IS ONE OF THOSE RARE BOOKS THAT I COULDN'T PUT DOWN. COVER TO COVER THIS IS A MUST READ FOR ALL BASEBALL FANS. DONALD HONIG PUTS TOGETHER A WONDERFUL COLLECTION OF WELL WRITTEN, DETAILED AND INTERESTING STORIES TOLD BY SOME LEGENDS OF THE GAME. IT IS A MUST READ.
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