My Greatest Day in Baseball

'Indispensable: a nostalgic delight' - "New York Times Book Review". 'This collection ...is a knockout. A lot of [baseball's greatest stars] are here ...with reminiscences that are the very essence of the thrills - and laughs - of America's favorite sport' - "New Republic". "My Greatest Day in Baseball", one of the earliest collections of the game's oral histories, presents forty-seven famous stars from the golden age of baseball relating their most unforgettable moments in the sport. Ty Cobb vividly recreates the seventeenth-inning tie between the Philadelphia Athletics and Detroit Tigers with the 1908 pennant at stake. Grover Cleveland Alexander describes the day he saved the 1926 world championship for the St. Louis Cardinals. Babe Ruth recalls hitting the homer he had promised to the crowd at a 1932 World Series game. Dizzy Dean recounts a run-in with Ford Frick and a record-setting day in 1933 when he struck out seventeen Chicago Cubs.Among the other celebrated baseball figures telling their dramatic stories are Leroy 'Satchel' Paige, Casey Stengel, Leo 'The Lip' Durocher, Honus Wagner, Johnny Evers, Lefty Gomez, Tris Speaker, Cy Young, Pepper Martin, George Sisler, Billy Southworth, Enos Slaughter, Connie Mack, Walter Johnson, and Rogers Hornsby. John P. Carmichael was sports editor of the "Chicago Daily News" when he edited "My Greatest Day in Baseball" in 1945. Jerome Holtzman, the introducer, is senior sports columnist for the Chicago Tribune. He is the author of "No Cheering in the Press Box".