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  <title><![CDATA[The Glory of Their Times : The Story of Baseball Told By the Men Who Played It]]></title>
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  <default-description>The voices of the game's distant past continue to reverberate with a distinct freshness in Lawrence S. Ritter's &lt;i&gt;The Glory of Their Times.&lt;/i&gt; An oral history of the game in the first two decades of the century, &lt;i&gt;Glory&lt;/i&gt; sends out its impressive roster of players to tell their own stories, and what stories they tell--the story of their times as well as of their game; the scorecard includes Rube Marquard, Babe Herman, Stan Coveleski, Smoky Joe Wood, and Wahoo Sam Crawford. A delight from cover to cover, &lt;i&gt;Glory&lt;/i&gt; is the next best thing to having been there in the days when the ball may have been dead, but the personalities were anything but.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1971</original-publication-year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lawrence S. Ritter]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a must-read for baseball fans. I know there aren’t that many people who give a shit about baseball but I have really grown to appreciate it. This book is a transcription of interviews with baseball players who played around the turn of the century. It was published in the 60’s. <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40022387">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I won't begin this review by referring to The Glory of Their Times as an astounding oral history of baseball in the early 20th Century.  It's the stories and the minds of the men who played that are so compelling; for example, hall-of-famer Sam Crawford's insight into the number of misfit characters...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51380319">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a fabulous history of the early days of baseball - that is, the early 1900s - and what makes it so special is that it isn't like an ordinary history. Instead, it is comprised of short chapters that are the transcriptions (with some editing) of interviews with some of the best baseball player...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51491043">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The author interviews players that were around when baseball was just beginning to become a professional sport. There weren't that many still alive, so the ones he interviews were lesser known players. They still share some fascinating stories.<br/><br/>This is definitely a book for those who enjo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44955979">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book, although it isn't a book I would read all at once.  It is a series of oral histories by famous baseball players from around 1900-1920.  The author didn't start collecting the histories until the mid-1960s, so a lot of better known names (i.e. Joe Jackson, Babe Ruth, etc) ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14329050">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the book to be read by those who wish to truly understand the history of baseball.   It is stories told to the author by those who lived them, including some of the very best of professional baseball's early players.  I own several large shelves of baseball books, but this is the one I lend ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68281812">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Glory Of Their Times&quot; remains a timeless work, and can be enjoyed by more than just hard-core baseball fans. Basically the story of the early days of Major League Baseball, told by the surviving oldsters who had played it, &quot;The Glory Of Their Times&quot; works so well because it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7635141">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was perhaps the first baseball history book I read as an adult, and it was a great place to start.  Although the players interviewed are  not all household names, their stories are memorable, especially since you read them as the players told them to Ritter.  I think any avid baseball fan would...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43195068">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Contains the oral histories of a bunch of former professional baseball players who played during the heyday of the sport during the early 1900s. The stories are quirky and fun and revealed a lot about how the game has changed (and also what makes it such an enduring pastime). Thoroughly entertaining...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63783042">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i read it in a holding cell in o'hare airport and that still didn't stop me deriving pleasure from it. i don't know if i could possibly give a more glowing recommendation than that.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great book about baseball. Ritter had the chance to interview many of the very early baseball players, so you get a great feel for what life was like at the beginning.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1999</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[In this oral history of the early days of baseball, Lawrence Ritter interviews players who played the game from the turn of the century through the twenties:  before salaries, before celebrity, before fixed leagues. It's a fascinating book that's not just about baseball's past, but ultimately about ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1202429">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A wonderful piece of baseball history.  Ritter takes baseball players from the early 20th century and lets them tell about their life in baseball in their own words.  Baseball is a great fraternity, made up of unique individuals.  I have always thought that baseball stories are far better than the y...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18380194">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Superbly interesting story of old-time baseball players. The only reason it doesn't get five stars is because, due to the nature of the way it is written, the monologue can be kind of dry. However, to hear these stories from the players themselves, word-for-word, is a very original idea, and for the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56670847">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[if you enjoyed ken burns' baseball documentary, check this book out. it's where a lot of the quotations come from for the early 1900's episodes. it's worth reading for the descriptions of rube waddell alone, an ace pitcher and man-child, who opposing first-base coaches discovered could be distracted...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2828314">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing oral histories of ballplayers in the early 20th century. Lotsa details about the way the players lived, worked, played, etc.. The idea of an ex-ballplayer has always been a little spooky to me, and these guys -- all interviewed near the end of their lives -- all sound like ghosts being reawa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31917796">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this at the same time as &quot;Blue Highways&quot; by William Least Heat Moon, and &quot;Travels with Charlie&quot;.  Lots of travelling around the US.  So this guy goes around the States interviewing some of the early baseball players.  Love the part where Honus Wagner steals first base.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Easily one of my favorite sports books ever written. Lawrence Ritter did a tremendous service to sports fans by coming up with this concept before it was too late. I love pulling this one off the shelf from time to time and giving it a re-read.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A terrific collection...ah, hell, I just love this quote:<br/><br/>&quot;Being unable to assume an initial premise with any tolerable degree of accuracy I am loathe to assert a conclusion fearful I might err. -Andy Coakley&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i found it in the gates public library the summer after seventh grade, and have read it every single summer since then.  an amazing portrayal young america and the sport at its core.  ]]></body>
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