Harvey Frommer: 17 books
by Harvey Frommer
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Another peek at baseball's good old days—or, in this case, bad old days—by veteran sports-historian Harvey Frommer. Frommer paints Shoeless Joe as a baseball natural ("Joe Jackson hit the ball harder than any man ever to play baseball"—Ty Cobb), an illiterate hick (his table utensils...
When It Was Just a Game
Remembering the First Super Bowl
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Written by acclaimed sports author and oral historian Harvey Frommer and with an introduction by pro football Hall of Famer Frank Gifford, When It Was Just a Game tells the fascinating story of the ground-breaking AFL–NFL World Championship Football game played on January 15, 1967: Packers vs. Chiefs....
Rickey and Robinson
The Men Who Broke Baseball's Color Barrier
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Blending exclusive rare interviews with Rachel Robinson (Jackie’s widow), Mack Robinson (Jackie’s brother), Hall of Famers Monte Irvin, Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella, Ralph Kiner, and others, celebrated author Harvey Frommer evokes the lives of general manager Branch Rickey and Jackie...
by Harvey Frommer
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Throughout the 2008 season, each game played at the world’s most beloved stadium brought “The House That Ruth Built” closer to shutting its gates forever. Players envisioned running off the field one last time. Vendors anticipated selling their last bags of peanuts. Fans readied themselves to...
The Ultimate Yankee Book
From the Beginning to Today: Trivia, Facts and Stats, Oral History, Marker Moments and Legendary Personalities—A History and Reference Book About Baseball’s Greatest Franchise
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The perfect gift for the diehard fan, an enviable treasure for yourself, The Ultimate Yankee Book is the most current and comprehensive source of trivia, people and stories from the team’s creation in 1901 to today. Harvey Frommer, the celebrated baseball historian and author of eight books about...
by Harvey Frommer
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
This sensitive commentary on Jackie Robinson's life describes his childhood in Pasadena, through his years as a sports hero, to his later involvement in politics and the Civil Rights movement. Harvey Frommer has drawn upon interviews with Robinson's family, friends, and fellow ball players to tell...
Five O'Clock Lightning
Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and the Greatest Baseball Team in History, the 1927 New York Yankees
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
An entertaining read about the greatest baseball team, the 1927 New York Yankees, who beat up on American League rivals during the regular season and then swept the World Series. With verve, facts, and stories, Harvey Frommer evokes the Murderers' Row of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Miller Huggins, Tony Lazerri, Bob Meusel, and more.
Old Time Baseball
America's Pastime in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2005
In this delightful history of the sport, Frommer captures the flavor, smell, and craziness of the early days of baseball. Starting with its invention in 1842 by the descendant of a British sea captain (and not Abner Doubleday), Frommer traces the development of the sport from the first games on a...
Old Time Baseball
America's Pastime in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
In this delightful history of the sport, Frommer captures the flavor, smell, and craziness of the early days of baseball. Starting with its invention in 1842 by the descendant of a British sea captain (and not Abner Doubleday), Frommer traces the development of the sport from the first games on a...
It Happened in Miami, the Magic City
An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Just in time for the one-hundredth anniversary of Miami Beach, It Happened in Miami, the Magic City: An Oral History features nearly seventy fabulous voices including more than fifteen mini-memorists, telling stories, offering perceptions on subject matter as far back as memory allows up to the exciting...
Manhattan at Mid-Century
An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Experience the mosaic of mid-century Manhattan in this exuberant oral history that begins in the post–World War II years when the city came into its own, and ends in the mid-1970s when it nearly went bust. This is the story of a time when great ocean liners were docked in the Hudson River ports,...
It Happened on Broadway
An Oral History of the Great White Way
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
In this deliciously revealing oral history of Broadway from World War II through the early 1980s, more than one hundred theater veterans—including Carol Channing, Hal Prince, Donna McKechnie, Hal Holbrook, Andrea McArdle, and Al Hirschfeld—deliver the behind-the-scenes story of the hits, the stars,...
A Yankee Century and Beyond
A Celebration of the First Hundred Plus Years of Baseball's Greatest Team
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
"Yankee fans who can't learn enough about their favorite team will think they died and went to heaven with all that Frommer offers on each page." -Publishers Weekly
This newly updated album captures 106 years of Yankee life in pictures, stats, words and reflections. From their beginning...
Red Sox vs. Yankees
The Great Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
The rivalry between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox involves not just the teams, but the cities, owners, ballparks, fans, and the media. Its roots reach back to before even Babe Ruth and Harry Frazee, yet it is as contemporary as the next Red Sox–Yankees game. This book tells the story of...
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