100 Years of Baseball: The Intimate and Dramatic Story Of Modern Baseball
About this ebook
The
story of America's pastime is rooted in our history. The most commonly
told stories of baseball are no mystery. They can easily be found in any
of the thousands of books on this team or that player. In 100 Years of Baseball, we get to look even further into the past at the stories that didn't make the headlines.
Down
through the years as baseball grew, Lee Allen traces the development...
the New York knickerbockers of yesteryear; Jackie Robinson; the dark
days of 1919, to the shenanigans of Durocher and MacPhail, and the New
York Yankee world series monopoly.
For a full-fledged history of professional baseball with all its crises, climaxes and heroes 100 Years of Baseball is a book that will excite you like no other.
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About the author
As a child in New York in the 1950's, Andy Gondle was almost had no
choice but to develop an undeniable love for the Yankees. Growing up as
a witness to the rise of the greats like Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris,
Gondle's fate was sealed the day he met Joe DiMaggio on the steps of
the Baseball Hall of Fame they day he was inducted. For the next
decade, Gondle lived for baseball, playing on every school team, summer
leage, or vacant lot he could find.
When a career-ending injury
stopped his aspirations of joining the Yankees roster cold, Gondle was
crushed. Thinking the game had abandoned him, Gondle took a job writing
ads for the New York Times and planned for a life off the field. As it
turned out, Gondle's passion for the game far surpassed his ability to
play and when his editor recommended him for a promotion to the sports
page, he quickly became one of the most popular baseball writers in the
history of the paper.
Gondle's columns continue to delight
baseball fans of every generation and his expertise has landed him
regular appearances on SportsCenter, HBO's Inside Sports, and even the
Tonight Show. He was nominated for a Peabody Award for his coverage of
Mark McGwire's breaking of the home run record, and would later win for
his work on the documentary Built covering the steroids scandal.
