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Games, Asterisks, and People: Memoirs of a Lucky Fan
This marvellous book records a "burning love affair" with the game of baseball. In a day of the put-down and muckraking in sportswriting, "Games, Asterisks, and People," a collection of personal reminiscences and anecdotes will stand out as that refreshing change: a happy book.
Ford Frick has been involved with baseball all his life - as sportscaster, sports-writer, founder of baseball's Hall of Fame, league president, and, for fifteen years, Commissioner of Baseball. He knows all the great figures of the last fifty years and he loves baseball's lore and traditions, its drama and personalities. Here he provides stories that go back to the almost forgotten past of baseball's origins: he gives intimate recollections of the inimitable Judge Landis, owners such as Branch Rickey (and his historic decision to bring Jackie Robinson into the majors), and great ballplayers such as Babe Ruth.
Ford Frick has been involved with baseball all his life - as sportscaster, sports-writer, founder of baseball's Hall of Fame, league president, and, for fifteen years, Commissioner of Baseball. He knows all the great figures of the last fifty years and he loves baseball's lore and traditions, its drama and personalities. Here he provides stories that go back to the almost forgotten past of baseball's origins: he gives intimate recollections of the inimitable Judge Landis, owners such as Branch Rickey (and his historic decision to bring Jackie Robinson into the majors), and great ballplayers such as Babe Ruth.
- GenresBaseball
244 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1973
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