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Format: Quality Paperback
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Jan 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Sports - Baseball
Retail Price: $12.95
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 in the sport. Ty Cobb vividly recreates the seventeenth-inning tie between the Philadelphia Athletics and the Detroit Tigers with the 1908 pennant at stake. Grover Cleveland Alexander describes the day he saved the 1926 world championship for the St. Louis Cardinals. Babe Ruth recalls hitting the home he had pro