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The Glory of Their Times
by Lawrence S. Ritter
Oral histories of early-twentieth-century ballplayers, recorded by Ritter in the 1960s. Voices from a vanished game; a landmark.
Read it if…
you want baseball's beginnings in the players' words.
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Skip it if…
you want modern baseball.
Try instead: Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball →
Three things you will actually use
- Record the elders.
- Voices beat statistics.
- The game was always human.
Do this first
Read Rube Marquard's and Sam Crawford's chapters.
Our verdict
Old-timers' voices.
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