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Hodgepodge Inside Baseball Lingo the Sometimes Untold, Fairly Fascinating, Oddly Amazing, Stories of How They Came to Be That Way / PART 2 The First World Series “Dat Day” Bobby Thomson's Famous Homer Lives On Sad Days at Fenway Park in the 1960's Massive Fire Sale at Fenway:  Sixties Swamp Time Looming Yankees vs. Red Sox: Baseball's Absolutely Amazing and Greatest Rivalry The Storied and Sensational Subway Series: Battle of New York City Baseball TALKIN' YANKEES: Quips, Quotes, Asides, Philosophy and More (Part I) The 1927 New York Yankees,Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig and Company: How Murderers' Row Shaped Baseball Baseball's Greatest Rivalry: Red Sox vs. Yankees (Part I) Red Sox Quiz Red Sox Quiz 2 New York Yankees Quiz New York Yankees Quiz II Best Baseball Team Ever: 1927 New York Yankees Yankees by the Nick Names (I) All About Baseball's Greatest team - - the New York Yankees Shoeless Joe Jackson Belongs in the Hall of Fame! “Sandman” Mariano Rivera & the “Save Rule” New York Yankee September Pasts (From Vault) Pine Tar Game July 24, August 18, 1983 (From Vault) Yankees World Series 2001 The Armando Galarraga Imperfect Perfect Game NY Yankees '27 World Champions Collision Course: Red Sox versus Yankees From New York Yankee September Pasts New York Yankees Quiz (Part 1) The Harmonica Incident Redux - Red Sox Vs Yankees: the Great Rivalry / Encore Baseball Names and How They Got That Way! (Parts I - V) / Part III / Part IV  / Part V / Part VI (A&B) / Part VII (C) / Part VIII (W&Y) / Part IX (D) / Part X  (M)/ Part XI (more, C) / Part XII (E) / Part XIII (F) / Part XV (H) / Part  XVI / Part XVII (J&K) / Part XVIII (I) / Part XIX (M) / Part XX (N) / Part XXI (O) / Part XXII (P) / Part XXIII (R) / Part XXIV (S, part 1) / Part XXV (S, part 2) / Part XXVI (S, final part) Remembering Brothers Richman, Arthur & Milt Opening Day at Yankee Stadium: 1927 New York Yankees By The Numbers III Yankees Stuff (Through 2007 Mid-Season)

Remembering Players of the Past Remembering Johnny Pesky Remembering Jake Ruppert Remembering Carl Beane: "The Voice" of the Boston Red Sox Will Be Missed Summer of '41: Joe DiMaggio's Epic 56-Game Hitting Streak Remembered The Bucky Dent Home Run Remembering Bobby Thompson Dom DiMaggio Shoeless Joe Remains a Scapegoat Wee Willie Keeler Writing About Jackie Robinson: An Experience at Once Moving, Poignant, Inspirational / Jackie Robinson / Jackie Robinson Remembered 2009 / Remembering Jackie Robinson Hank Greenberg Lou Gehrig The "Big Train" Walter Johnson The Yankee Clipper: Joe DiMaggio Pee Wee Reese was no Pee Wee The Nolan Ryan Express Willie Mays is 70 / Willie Mays Is 80 Babe Ruth Sandy Koufax  Don Mattingly Mickey Mantle  Joe McCarthy Red Ruffing  Herb Pennock Remembering Bobby Murcer HOLY COW! Remembering Phil Rizzuto Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig: "Great American Home Run Derby" Babe Ruth Passes Remembering Yankee Stadium "Lucky Lindy" and the '27 Yankees What's in a Yankee Nickname? Remembering Bob Sheppard Remembering Tommy Henrich Nolan Ryan - -The Way to Go!

Baseball Records & Feats Bobby Thomson's Famous Homer Lou Gehrig: The Streak / 4 HR Game Gionfriddo's Catch First Designated Hitter to Bat: April 6, 1973 The Copa Incident: May 16, 1957 Joe Dimaggio's 56 Game Hitting Streak Began May 15, 1941 Joe Dimaggio Show at Fenway Park: June 28-30, 1949 Johnny Blanchard, Four Straight Hommers - July 21- 22, 1961 The Eleven Walk Inning: September 11, 1949 Ruth: The Called Shot - October 1, 1932Babe Ruth: First HR, May 6, 1915 / Ruth's MLB Debut / Final Appearance Jim Leyritz and the Great World Series Comeback: OCTOBER 23, 1996 Pine Tar Game July 24, August 18, 1983 Mickey Mantle, Tape Measure Shot, April 17, 1953 Bill Mazeroski's World Series Homer, October 13, 1960 No Hitters Vandy's Masterpiece: The Double No-Hitter David Wells' Perfect Game Allie Reynolds - The Two No Hitters, 1951 David Cone, The Perfect Game, July 19, 1999 Dwight Gooden No Hitter, May 14, 1996 The Bevens' No-Hitter Lost: October 3, 1947

NFL: Remembering Super Bowl 1 - Remembering the First Super Bowl

Super Bowl 2012: What's in the Giants, Patriots, 49ers and Ravens' Name?

Football Names and How They Got That Way / Who Dat? / Football Names and How They Got That Way - Part 3

NBA Draft: All at once Amazingly Addictive

What's in an NBA Nick-Name? Part IV, A-D - Part IV, E-H - Part V, I-L

Faux NBA: Caveat Emptor, Got Game? Or Gotcha?

Amazing, Historic, Lowest Scoring NBA Game & the Birth of the 24-Second Clock

  Harvey Frommer

Players / Records & Feats / Yankees / Red Sox

About the Author

Harvey Frommer is in his 41st year of writing books. A noted oral historian and sports journalist, the author of 41 sports books including the classics: "New York City Baseball,1947-1957" and "Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball," his acclaimed REMEMBERING YANKEE STADIUM was published in 2008 and his REMEMBERING FENWAY PARK: AN ORAL AND NARRATIVE HISTORY OF THE HOME OF RED SOX NATION was published to acclaim in 2011.

His work has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, New York Daily News, Newsday, USA Today, Men's Heath, The Sporting News, among other publications.

FROMMER SPORTSNET (syndicated) reaches a readership in the millions and is housed on Internet search engines for extended periods of time.

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Dr. Frommer is the Official Book Reviewer of BaseballGuru.com *Autographed copies of Frommer books are available .

Get autographed, discounted copies of several sports books directly from the author from his web site: harveyfrommersports.com

Other Frommer sports related articles can be found at Baseball Library, Washington Post, and Red Sox Nation.

Harvey Frommer along with his wife, Myrna Katz Frommer are the authors of five critically acclaimed oral/cultural histories, professors at Dartmouth College, and travel writers who specialize in cultural history, food, wine, and Jewish history and heritage in the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean.

Backlisted Frommer Baseball Books

The New York Yankee Encyclopedia (1997)
Big Apple Baseball: An Illustrated History from the Boroughs to the Ballparks (1993)
Growing Up at Bat: 50 Years of Little League Baseball (1989)
150th Anniversary Baseball Picture Albums (1988)
Primitive Baseball: The First Quarter Century of the National Pastime (1988)
Baseball's Greatest Managers (1985)
Baseball's Hall of Fame (A First Book) (1984)
Baseballs Greatest Rivalry Yankees-Boston (1984)
Jackie Robinson Impact Biography (1984)
Baseballs Greatest Records Streaks Feats (1983)
Sports Lingo: A Dictionary of the Language of Sports (1983)
Throwing Heat Autobiography Nolan Ryan

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Book Reviews Fenway images from Harvey's book being released in early 2011. PDF's from book: Interior / Cover Nailed Francona: The Red Sox Years Just Win Baby (and other non baseball tomes) Sports Book Reviews: Jan 1, 2013 Sports Book Reviews From Random House, Canada One Last Strike Football Sporting Reads August Sporting Reads The Weather is Heating Up and so is the Baseball Reading about "Ozzie's School of Management," John Smoltz and more . . . "Bill Veeck," "Pinstripe Empire," and "Driving Mr. Yogi" Duke vs. Kentucky, Hack Wilson, Summer of '68 & More Faux NBA: Caveat Emptor, Got Game? Or Gotcha? Howard Cosell "West by West," "100 Yards of Glory" and more . . . Greatest Game Ever Pitched Those Guys Have All the Fun "The House That Ruth Built," "An Accidental Sportswriter" and other Summer 2011 Reads 2011 Spring Roundup - Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5 / Part 6 Baseball How to Play the Game Graphical Player Traded Bill James Handbook Glory in the Fall Yankee Classics The Mudville Heritage The Open Golf's Oldest Major "The Amazing Tale of Mr. Herbert and His Fabulous Cowboys Baseball Club" "Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert" & "Blows To The Head" The 300 Club Steinbrenner The T206 Collection "Terrific Tomes from Triumph" "The Eastern Stars" "Bums" and "Dynasty" 1921 The Open 100 Baseball Icons and Not Without Hope Mark and Me Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend Where Men Win Glory Baseball Americana "The First Fall Classic," Heroes & Ballyhoo," Ron Darling's "The Complete Game" and more . . . The Wizard of Waxahachie Soldier Field - The Machine - Satchel Cooperstown Confidential Torre - ARod - Yogi - Munson Straw Book Review - "Bases Loaded” by Kirk Radomski Book Review - "Yankee Colors” by Al Silverman Book Review - "Bottom of the Ninth” by Michael Shapiro Book Review - "George" by Peter Golenbock 2009 Spring Baseball Books / Part II / Part III / Children's The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2009 Yankee for Life SPAHN, SAIN and TEDDY BALLGAME Babe Ruth: Remembering the Bambino in Stories, Photos and Memorabilia Red Sox Threads & Other August Reads Baseball Bits June 2008 Book Reviews May Reads for Sports Fans Walkoffs, Last Licks and Final Outs Vindicated (Canseco) I Live for This!: Baseball's Last True Believer Holiday Reads 2007: Part 1 / Part 2 Senior Year The Pride and the Pressure Through a Blue Lens Keepers from Bison Books The Joy of Keeping Score Jonathan Eig's "Opening Day" DEADBALL STARS of the American League STAT BOOK TREATS FOR ALL: The 2006 ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia and More Older Book Reviews (scroll down) http://travel-watch.com//frommerss.htm

Harvey's Baseball Books

Cover art: Five O'Clock Lightning
Press Release
Book: Five O'Clock Lightning

Free Reading
Summer of 1927
Feb 1927 Excerpt
The Best of Times
March 1927 Excerpt
Pre Season Excerpt
Feb 2008 Excerpt
Ruth Excerpt
Ruth 60 Excerpt
Yankees Excerpt
Has It Really Been a Yankee Century?
NY POST/FIVE O'CLOCK LIGHTNING

Old Time Baseball: America's Pastime in the Gilded Age (2006)

Free Reading
Introduction
Women and Baseball

Red Sox vs. Yankees: The Great Rivalry (2005)

The Sports Junkies' Book of Trivia, Terms, and Lingo: What They Are, Where They Came From,and How They're Used (2005)

Book: A Yankee Century: A Celebration Of The First Hundred Years Of Baseball (2003)

Growing Up Baseball: An Oral History (2001)

Press: Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball

Book: Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball (1993)

New York City Baseball: The Last Golden Age, 1947-1957 (1985)

Rickey and Robinson (1982)