At the Old Ballgame: Stories from Baseball's Golden Era

by Jeff Silverman

Book Overview

Before multimillion-dollar salaries, luxury boxes, and player strikes became synonymous with professional sports, there existed the belief in playing simply "for the love of the game." Nothing captures that spirit better than these twenty classic pieces about America's favorite pastime.
Collected here are the writings of Ring Lardner, Zane Grey, the Giants' immortal Christy Mathewson, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Finley Peter Dunne (who for a time...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762796499
• ISBN13: 9780762796496
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.0"