{"product_id":"they-played-the-game-memories-from-47-major-leaguers-hardcover","title":"They Played the Game: Memories from 47 Major Leaguers - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNorman L. Macht\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNoted baseball historian Norman L. Macht brings together a wide-ranging collection of baseball voices from the Deadball Era through the 1970s, including nine Hall of Famers, who take the reader onto the field, into the dugouts and clubhouses, and inside the minds of both players and managers. These engaging, wide-ranging oral histories bring surprising revelations--both highlights and lowlights--about their careers, as they revisit their personal mental scrapbooks of the days when they played the game. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Not all of baseball's best stories are told by its biggest stars, especially when the stories are about those stars. Many of the storytellers you'll meet in \u003ci\u003eThey Played the Game\u003c\/i\u003e are unknown to today's fans: the Red Sox's Charlie Wagner talks about what it was like to be Ted Williams's roommate in Williams's rookie year; the Dodgers' John Roseboro recounts his strategy when catching for Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax; former Yankee Mark Koenig recalls batting ahead of Babe Ruth in the lineup, and sometimes staying out too late with him; John Francis Daley talks about batting against Walter Johnson; Carmen Hill describes pitching against Babe Ruth in the 1927 World Series.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNorman L. Macht\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than thirty books, including \u003ci\u003eConnie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball \u003c\/i\u003e(Nebraska, 2007); \u003ci\u003eConnie Mack: The Turbulent and Triumphant Years, 1915-1931\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska, 2012); and \u003ci\u003eThe Grand Old Man of Baseball: Connie Mack in His Final Years, 1932-1956\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska, 2015); as well as numerous biographies for middle school readers including Cy Young, Babe Ruth, and Lou Gehrig. For more information about the author visit NormanMacht.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.3 x 9.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771860451616,"sku":"9781496205506","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/d64757f02282e8c7030776f0c46e39c1.webp?v=1780395697","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/they-played-the-game-memories-from-47-major-leaguers-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}