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The best of baseball digest: the greatest players, the greatest games, the greatest writers from baseball's most exciting years
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Publication Date
c2006
Language
English
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From the Book
Baseball's best batters / Billy Evans
Ty Cobb thrived on fierce opposition / Bob French
Baseball in Paris, 1918 / Heywood Broun
How Connie Mack passed up Babe Ruth / Red Smith
'34 series win, "a big day in my life" / Dizzy Dean and John P. Carmichael
When Goslin edged me out for the batting title / Heinie Manush and John P. Carmichael
You can't kill the umpire / George Barr
Pitchers are sissies now / Kid Nichols and Sam Molen
Joe Jackson, finest natural hitter of them all / Arthur Daley
messiest no-hitter / Red Smith
My greatest thrill as a player / Casey Stengel and John P. Carmichael
Grover Alexander shatters a myth about '26 World Series / Gerry Hern
Ed Walsh fanned the "big three" on nine pitches / Jimmy Cannon
Fighting Billy Martin / Charles Dexter
Roy Campanella's tricks behind the plate / Charles Dexter
Jocko Conlan : "umpires must have command and respect" / Robert Cromie
How the Braves lost out in signing Willie Mays / Sam Levy
For all-around skill, "you should have seen old Hans" / Francis Stann
How to stay alive on second base / Nellie Fox and Milton Richman
Did Buck Weaver get a raw deal? / James T. Farrell
That called homer? it never happened! / Herbert Simons
Mickey Mantle I know / Merlyn Mantle and Christy Munro
most exciting team ever / Jimmy Cannon
What it takes to be a winning pitcher / Roger Kahn
What players thought when under pressure / John Kuenster
spitter that lost the World Series / Herbert Simons
case of the nervous batter / Leonard Koppett
Hornsby's five fabulous years / Tom Meany
How early Wynn made DiMaggio quit / Art Rosenbaum
lingering shadow of the iron man / Al Hirshberg
first baseman who outpitched Walter Johnson / George Sisler and Lyall Smith
Eddie Cicotte : "I did wrong but I paid for it'" / Joe Falls
My double no-hit game / Jim Vaughn
Jim Gilliam recalls tough times in the Negro leagues / John Wiebusch
How Casey Stengel got his nickname / John Kuenster
Drysdale put his brand on the hitters and the game / Jim Murray
Rudy York's letter to his son / Furman Bisher
What baseball needs is a little more hostility / Joe McGuff
Home run record a bitter memory for Roger Maris / Ira Berkow
Tragic pitch recalled by Carl Mays / Jack Murphy
Baseball - a bridge between two silences / Frank L. Ryan
Mental blunders are part of the game / Edward Prell
When the Cardinals ended the Yankee dynasty / Tim McCarver and Allen Lewis
When a midget batted as a major leaguer / Bob Broeg
making of a baseball fanatic / Mary Barbara Browne
Jackie Robinson I knew / Wendell Smith
Roberto Clemente was a sensitive superstar / Milton Richman
day I got my 3,000th hit / Stan Musial and George Vass
day Cleveland went wild / Lou Boudreau and Irv Haag
Andy Seminick once decimated the giants' infield / Richie Ashburn
I remember the polo grounds / Jack Lang
And their catchers weren't too good, either! / Harold Rosenthal
love story of a baseball legend / Brad Willson
Ernie Banks, baseball's ambassador of goodwill / John Kuenster
Curt Flood : baseball's forgotten pioneer / Murray Chass
Luck had a role in my perfect no-hitter / Sandy Koufax and George Vass
Why the Red Sox hate the Yankees / Ray Fitzgerald
Stealing home is not for the faint of heart / Melvin Durslag
Lefty Gomez enlivened the game with comedy / Jerry D. Lewis
Reggie's moment arrived in the '77 World Series / Joe McGuff
Ted Williams goes back to where it all began / Charles Maher
When Gabby Hartnett hit his homer in the gloamin' / John P. Carmichael
bat : a hitter's most prized, pampered possession / Thomas Boswell
Bob Uecker, baseball's Rodney Dangerfield / Bob Verdi
How it was in the old days of class "D" baseball / Ben Fanton
Dad, how come we never played catch? / Andy Lindstrom
Warren Spahn names his toughest batting foes / George White
mellowing of Leo "the Lip" Durocher / Richard Dozer
Where have all the bench jockeys gone? / Mark Kram
Pennant fever revives cub trivia quiz / Mike Royko
Mental discipline, key to defensive excellence / Peter Gammons
Memories of a tryout with the New York Yankees / Frank J. Vespe
Hall of famer who almost didn't make the majors / Walter M. Langford
mighty mite who rarely struck out / Walter M. Langford
You can hear it all in the batter's box / Bruce Keidan
When New York was the hub of the baseball world / Joe Donnelly
true story of Babe Ruth's visit to an ailing youth / Brian Sobel
Ted Williams talks about the art of hitting / Ron Mentus
Here's the quickest way to be ejected from a game / Bob Hertzel
Tom Seaver picks his ten most memorable games / Jack Lang
1939 was a vintage year in major league history / George Vass
Memories of my opening day no-hitter / Bob Feller
Remembering the tree that played center field / Furman Bisher
I can always go back / Jon Beatty Fish
Rickey Henderson ... there he goes! / Kirk Kenney
persuasive healing powers of baseball trivia / Stephen D. Boren
game I'll never forget / Ryne Sandberg and George Vass
Pursuit of home run record exacted a big toll on Aaron / Bruce Lowitt
Aging baseball glove leaves a touching legacy / Gary Schwab
Hall of fame batters and pitchers name their toughest opponents / William J. Guilfoile
Farewell to Mickey Mantle, one of baseball's greatest / Dave van Dyck
High school coach recalls Nolan Ryan as a young pitcher / Jim Kreuz
Hack Wilson belted homers, hecklers with equal gusto / John B. Holway
How outfielder Pete Gray met the big league challenge / John Steadman
belated salute to four old ballparks / Raymond Miller
day I collected Babe Ruth's autograph / John Deedy
Larry Doby : an overlooked black pioneer in the American League / Ira Berkow
Life in the bullpen / Jerry Crasnick
Veteran umpire says managers were more defiant years ago / John Kuenster
I never turned the other cheek / Bill Rogell and Nick C. Wilson
Trickery has always been part of big league baseball / Wayne Lockwood
Hall of famers recount lasting memories of major league debuts / John Kuenster
Dowd report details extensive gambling on baseball / Pete Rose and John Kuenster
Why left-handers are different / Gerry Fraley
Cal Ripken : more than baseball's iron man / Phil Rogers
Jimmy Piersall's antics overshadowed his talent / Bob Dolgan
Tony Gwynn strived for perfection as a hitter / Chris Jenkins
First base, the game's social hub / David Andriesen
Sign language, baseball's hidden communication / Larry Stone
Secret to my perfect game was good control / Don Larsen and Al Doyle
In '52, Virgil Trucks won only five games, but two were no-hitters / Bill Dow
Fielders list most difficult defensive plays by position / Jack Etkin
Ichiro Suzuki : hitting sensation / Dave van Dyck
home run, baseball's glamour event / Larry Stone
When Red Sox terminated "the curse of the Bambino" / Dan Shaughnessy
Teamwork keyed the White Sox title run / John Kuenster.
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