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Baseball Names and How They Got That Way! (Parts I - V) / Part VI / Part VII / Part VIII

Remembering Players of the Past
Shoeless Joe Remains a Scapegoat
Wee Willie Keeler
Jackie Robinson
Hank Greenberg
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"
Remembering Yankee Stadium

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

Book Reviews
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)
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New York Yankees By The Numbers III
Yankees Stuff (Through 2007 Mid-Season)

BaseballGuru.com Home PageClubhouse!

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Players / Records & Feats / Yankees / Red Sox


Havrey's Podcast on CBS Radio Meet Harvey in Person! Fall 2008 Book Tour Reviews of "Remembering Yankee Stadium", published September 1, 2008  See Images and Learn More Buy the book

Sneak previews and 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: Forties
Remembering Yankee Stadium: Fifties
Remembering Yankee Stadium: Sixties

ALSO IN FALL 2008: Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball
Press Release for October 2007: Yankee 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 excess of 750,000 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

Contact
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Five O'Clock Lightning
Press Release

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

Free Reading
Introduction
Women and Baseball


Where Have All Our Red Sox Gone?Where Have All Our Red Sox Gone? (2006)
Red Sox vs. Yankees: The Great RivalryRed 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 UsedThe Sports Junkies' Book of Trivia, Terms, and Lingo: What They Are, Where They Came From,and How They're Used (2005)

The New York Yankee Encyclopedia A Yankee Century: A Celebration Of The First Hundred Years Of Baseball (2003)

Growing Up Baseball: An Oral History Growing Up Baseball: An Oral History (2001)

Shoeless Joe and Ragtime BaseballShoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball (1993)


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

Rickey and RobinsonRickey and Robinson (1982)

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