My Greatest Day in Baseball

By John P. Carmichael

Book Overview

My Greatest Day in Baseball , one of the earliest collections of the game's oral histories, presents forty-seven famous stars from the golden age of baseball relating their most unforgettable moments... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0448048795
• ISBN13: 9780448048796
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Tempo Books
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Solid First-Person Memories

This is a very enjoyable compilation of first-person accounts of their top day in baseball by the game's greatest stars. We hear from Mickey Mantle, Babe Ruth, Stan Musial, Christy Mathewson, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Brock, Cy Young and many others. Some of the 36 first-person tales are from the World Series; others are from regular season games. We hear Ty Cobb discuss the day his Tigers took the 1907 pennant, Leo Durocher as his Brooklyn Dodgers did likewise in 1941, Sandy Koufax throwing a perfect game in 1965, Roger Maris hitting 61 homers in 1961, and many equally interesting tales. The player remembrances were told to sportswriters like Jack Orr and John Carmichael, who gave us nicely readable prose. This book is dated but clearly worth reading.

Baseball When It Was A Game--Great Nostalgia

Do you get a chill when you see names like Ruth, Cobb, and Gehrig in an actual box score--a box score from a bygone era that omits runs-batted-in and sometimes even times at bat? Have you ever heard about the "Merkle boner," Walter Johnson's dramatic first world series victory (in relief!), unknown Howard Ehmke starting a world series game instead of the great Lefty Grove and setting a strikeout record against the heavy-hitting Chicago Cubs (yes, the Cubs), Pete Reiser's Dodgers heading toward a pennant, Tinker to Evers to Chance? If so, you'll love this well-written, nostalgic look at baseball the way it used to be (before 1945). Though these first-person accounts were written by leading sportswriters of that era, the personalities of the players come through clearly. Some old-time (if occasionally fuzzy) pictures add to the fun. Highly recommended.