The 1968 World Series: The Tigers-Cardinals Classic as Told by the Men Who Played
The 1968 World Series recalls one of baseball's most celebrated championship series from the voices of the players who still remaina collected narrative from a bygone era of major-league baseball as they reflect fifty years later.
Modeled after Lawrence S. Ritter's celebrated book, The Glory of Their Timesfor which the author traversed the country to record stories of baseball's deadball eraThe 1968 World Series will likewise preserve the days of baseball past, gathering the memories of the remaining players of the great Tigers and Cardinals teams to assemble their accounts into a vibrant baseball collection.
The 1968 World Series came at a time of great cultural changethe fading days of fans dressing up for ballgames, the first years of widespread color TVand was an historic matchup of two legendary teams, pitting star power head-to-head and going the distance of seven hard-fought games.
From the voices of the players themselves, The 1968 World Series illustrates in detail what it was like to be a 1968 Tiger, a 1968 Cardinal: what it was like to win it all and to lose it all: what it was like to face Bob Gibson peering in from the mound, Al Kaline digging in at the plate; what it was like, in the player's own words, to remember the days of that most special period in the history of America's national pastime.
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Modeled after Lawrence S. Ritter's celebrated book, The Glory of Their Timesfor which the author traversed the country to record stories of baseball's deadball eraThe 1968 World Series will likewise preserve the days of baseball past, gathering the memories of the remaining players of the great Tigers and Cardinals teams to assemble their accounts into a vibrant baseball collection.
The 1968 World Series came at a time of great cultural changethe fading days of fans dressing up for ballgames, the first years of widespread color TVand was an historic matchup of two legendary teams, pitting star power head-to-head and going the distance of seven hard-fought games.
From the voices of the players themselves, The 1968 World Series illustrates in detail what it was like to be a 1968 Tiger, a 1968 Cardinal: what it was like to win it all and to lose it all: what it was like to face Bob Gibson peering in from the mound, Al Kaline digging in at the plate; what it was like, in the player's own words, to remember the days of that most special period in the history of America's national pastime.
The 1968 World Series: The Tigers-Cardinals Classic as Told by the Men Who Played
The 1968 World Series recalls one of baseball's most celebrated championship series from the voices of the players who still remaina collected narrative from a bygone era of major-league baseball as they reflect fifty years later.
Modeled after Lawrence S. Ritter's celebrated book, The Glory of Their Timesfor which the author traversed the country to record stories of baseball's deadball eraThe 1968 World Series will likewise preserve the days of baseball past, gathering the memories of the remaining players of the great Tigers and Cardinals teams to assemble their accounts into a vibrant baseball collection.
The 1968 World Series came at a time of great cultural changethe fading days of fans dressing up for ballgames, the first years of widespread color TVand was an historic matchup of two legendary teams, pitting star power head-to-head and going the distance of seven hard-fought games.
From the voices of the players themselves, The 1968 World Series illustrates in detail what it was like to be a 1968 Tiger, a 1968 Cardinal: what it was like to win it all and to lose it all: what it was like to face Bob Gibson peering in from the mound, Al Kaline digging in at the plate; what it was like, in the player's own words, to remember the days of that most special period in the history of America's national pastime.
Modeled after Lawrence S. Ritter's celebrated book, The Glory of Their Timesfor which the author traversed the country to record stories of baseball's deadball eraThe 1968 World Series will likewise preserve the days of baseball past, gathering the memories of the remaining players of the great Tigers and Cardinals teams to assemble their accounts into a vibrant baseball collection.
The 1968 World Series came at a time of great cultural changethe fading days of fans dressing up for ballgames, the first years of widespread color TVand was an historic matchup of two legendary teams, pitting star power head-to-head and going the distance of seven hard-fought games.
From the voices of the players themselves, The 1968 World Series illustrates in detail what it was like to be a 1968 Tiger, a 1968 Cardinal: what it was like to win it all and to lose it all: what it was like to face Bob Gibson peering in from the mound, Al Kaline digging in at the plate; what it was like, in the player's own words, to remember the days of that most special period in the history of America's national pastime.
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ISBN-13: | 9781683583547 |
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Publisher: | Sports Publishing LLC |
Publication date: | 04/28/2020 |
Edition description: | Reprint |
Pages: | 336 |
Sales rank: | 603,880 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d) |
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