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Hodgepodge 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 Amazing "Acela Club" at Citi Field Baseball Names and How They Got That Way! (Parts I - V) / Part VI / Part VII / Part VIII / Part IX / Part X / Part XI 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 Dom DiMaggio Shoeless Joe Remains a Scapegoat Wee Willie Keeler Jackie Robinson / Jackie Robinson Remembered 2009 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 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

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

Football Names and How They Got That Way

  Harvey Frommer

Players / Records & Feats / Yankees / Red Sox

Latest...Remembering Yankee Stadium Reviews: "Remembering Yankee Stadium", published September 1, 2008  See Images and Learn More Buy the book Havrey's Podcast on CBS Radio  Extra content: Remembering Yankee Stadium: Opening Day 1923 Yankee Stadium Firsts Barnstorming Around America with the 1927 New York Yankees Remembering Yankee Stadium: All-Star Games Roll out the Barrel: The 1927 Yankees An Oral and Narrative History of The House That Ruth Built Yankee Stadium Prisms and Sidebars (A Very Partial List) Yankee Stadium By The Numbers Remembering Yankee Stadium: Twenties / Thirties / Forties / Fifties / Sixties / Seventies / Eighties / Nineties / 21st Century

About the Author

Harvey Frommer is his 33rd consecutive year of writing sports books. The author of 40 of them including the classics: "New York City Baseball,1947-1957" and "Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball," his REMEMBERING YANKEE STADIUM, an oral/narrative history (Abrams, Stewart, Tabori and Chang) was published September 1, 2008 as well as a reprint version of his "Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball.".

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

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

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 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
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)