The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

by Lawrence S. Ritter

I rejoined the Tigers on July 1, 1945, and I had the two biggest thrills of my whole career that season. One was on my first day back, July 1st: 50,000 people came to the ball park to welcome me home and I hit a home run that day to help win the game.