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Summary: This book isn't just about baseball
Review: After plowing through more than two dozen reviews that say this is the best baseball book ever written, you might be inclined to dismiss those sentiments as the worst example of hype. Don't. You will be the loser for it.This book is superb for its baseball stories, but it is more than that. The men in its pages talk about what it was like to be young and alive in America at the turn of the century. You don't even have to LIKE baseball to enjoy this book, but it certainly helps. Jacques Barzun has said that someone who wants to understand America must learn baseball. In the movie "Field of Dreams," James Earl Jones says, the one constant in America has been baseball. To understand what they're talking about, you must buy and read this book. And you'll enjoy yourself while doing so.
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Summary: The best book on Baseball ever written
Review: This book is simply the greatest ever written. Because of the fact that it was taken from conversations, the words ring with realism. The reader will learn what other player's perceptions of the stars were. What other book would have shown the intellect of "Wahoo" Sam Crawford? none. This book is realism to the core. Also it is interesting to see several perpectives on certain key events like the Merkle incident. I read this book all the time! It is simply the best book on baseball ever published.
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Summary: An absolute incredible book, a must read for baseball fans.
Review: Pure pleasure. Remarkable book
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Summary: A story by the men who played it at the turn of the century.
Review: I first got this book when I was 11 or 12 and really didn't understand it too much. They were a bunch of old ball players that had a story to tell. When I repurchased the book 1999, all the memories from reading it the first time came back. I not only enjoyed the book more, I understood their love of the game and who they really were. Mr. Ritter's style not only told me a story but I felt as if I was in the room listening to them tell me their own baseball glory.
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Summary: Now that's baseball!
Review: Tired of players being grossly overpaid who are mediocre compared to the greats of the recent past? Take this trip back to the distant past, baseball in the early 1900s. Ritter has presented a superb combination of great reminiscences and fabulous photos. I first read this in the late 1960s, and recently bought it to reread. Anyone who enjoys baseball for what it once was will have a great time with this one.
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Summary: Baseball Heaven! The All-Time best baseball book
Review: I'm 31 years old and many of these players existed only on paper with stats to incredible to believe. I really wondered if they were real people. Thanks to this book, now I know the men behind the stats. The only thing better than the book is the audio CD's of the interviews. I have listened to those over and over.
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Summary: An excellent book for any baseball fan
Review: A great look into a time in baseball that not too many people are alive to tell about,and told by the men who played it then.With many famous baseball players such as Wahoo Sam Crawford, Smokey Joe Wood,Edd Rousch,Big Poison Paul Waner,and Hank Greenburg and many more tell their stories about thier career.
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Summary: Incredible.
Review: Any true baseball fan must read this book. Ritter's recordings truly represent the heart and soul of the game, and show the reader the people behind the heroes. Truly wonderful.
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Summary: Quite Possibly the Best Baseball Book Ever Written!
Review: A book like this can never be written again. This is your chance to hear from several of Baseball's stars from the "Dead Ball" era firsthand in their own words. Included in this book are Rube Marquard, "Wahoo" Sam Crawford, Smokey Joe Wood, Edd Roush, Paul "Big Poison" Waner and many others. This is the only book I have ever read two times, back-to-back. The tapes of the actual interviews will be my next purchase.
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Summary: A must read for any fan of the "deadball" era
Review: A splendid account of baseball from the good old day
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