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“Easily the best baseball book ever produced by anyone.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer

“This was the best baseball book published in 1966, it is the best baseball book of its kind now, and, if it is reissued in 10 years, it will be the best baseball book.” — People

From Lawrence Ritter, co-author of The Image of Their Greatness and The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time, comes one of the bestselling, most acclaimed sports books of all time.

Baseball was different in earlier days—tougher, more raw, more intimate—when giants like Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb ran the bases. In the monumental classic The Glory of Their Times, the golden era of our national pastime comes alive through the vibrant words of those who played and lived the game. It is a book every baseball fan should read!

ISBN-13: 9780061994715

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Publication Date: 04-06-2010

Pages: 384

Product Dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

Lawrence S. Ritter (1922-2004) was chairman of the Department of Finance at the Graduate School of Business Administration of New York University. He collaborated with fellow baseball historian Donald Honig on The Image of Their Greatness and The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time but is best known for The Glory of Their Times, one of the most famous sports books ever published.

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Chapter One

Rube Marquard

After twilight had gone, in the first darkness of the night, a freight train rumbled into the station. When the engine was switching cars on the sidetrack, he crept along the side of the train, pulled open the side door of an empty boxcar, and awkwardly and laboriously climbed in. He closed the door. The engine whistled. He was lying down, and in the darkness he smiled.
— Jack London, The Apostate <

Table of Contents

Preface to the New Enlarged Edition ix

Original Preface xv

1 Rube Marquard [1908-25] 1

2 Tommy Leach [1898-1918] 20

3 Davy Jones [1901-15] 34

4 Sam Crawford [1899-1917] 47

5 George Gibson [1905-18] 70

6 Jimmy Austin [1909-22] 78

7 Fred Snodgrass [1908-16] 91

8 Stanley Coveleski [1916-28] 117

9 Al Bridwell [1905-15] 124

10 Harry Hooper [1909-25] 139

l1 Joe wood [1908-22] 154

12 Chief Meyers [1909-17] 170

13 Hans Lobert [1903-17] 185

14 Rube Bressler [1914-32] 198

15 Babe Herman [1926-45] 201

16 Edd Roush [1913-31] 218

17 Bill Wambsganss [1914-26] 231

18 Sam Jones [1914-35] 241

19 Bob O'Farrell [1915-35] 251

20 Specs Toporcer [1921-28] 259

21 Lefty O'Doul [1919-34] 271

22 Goose Goslin [1921-38] 279

23 Willie Kamm [1923-35] 290

24 Heinie Groh [1912-27] 299

25 Hank Greenberg [i933-47] 306

26 Paul Waner [1926-45] 332

Acknowledgments 249

Picture Credits 251

Index 353