They Tasted Glory: Among the Missing at the Baseball Hall of Fame

by Wil A. Linkugel and Edward J. Pappas

For one brief period in the early 1940s, Pete Reiser was the equal of any outfielder in baseball, even Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio, but his penchant for running into outfield walls while playing defense prematurely ended his journey to Cooperstown. Pitcher Herb Score was a brilliant pitcher until a Gil McDougald line drive shelved his career. And Thurman Munson was one of the game's best catchers in the late 1970s until a tragic plane crash...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786404841
• ISBN13: 9780786404841
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher