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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,
1932 Babe
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 /
Who
Dat? |
Harvey Frommer
Players
/
Records
& Feats /
Yankees
/
Red
Sox
About the Author
Harvey Frommer is in his 34th consecutive year of writing sports books. A
noted oral historian and sports journalist, the author of 40 sports books
including the classics:
"New
York City Baseball,1947-1957" and
"Shoeless
Joe and Ragtime Baseball," his acclaimed
REMEMBERING
YANKEE STADIUM, an oral/narrative history (Abrams, Stewart, Tabori and
Chang) was published in 2008 as well as a reprint version of his classic
"Shoeless
Joe and Ragtime Baseball." Frommer's newest work CELEBRATING FENWAY PARK:
AN ORAL AND NARRATIVE HISTORY OF THE HOME OF RED SOX NATION will be published
in 2010.
Get
autographed, discounted copies of several sports books directly from
the author from his web site:
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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
Email Harvey
Frommer
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Harvey's Baseball Books
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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
Where
Have All Our Red Sox Gone? (2006)
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)
Press:
Yankee
Century
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)
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