The Best of Baseball Digest: The Greatest Players The Greatest Games the Greatest Writers from the Game's Most Exciting Years

About this book

Heres a baseball feast of some 116 articles drawn from the most popular baseball magazine of them all from the 1940s to the present-stories from the leading baseball writers about the greatest players and the greatest games from baseballs most exciting years. The book is illustrated with more than 80 photographs many of them rarely seen. Readers can relive Willie Mayss great World Series catch; Roger Mariss 61st home run; Bob Fellers Opening Day no-hitter; Reggie Jacksons three homers on three swings in the 1977 World Series; Kirk Gibsons gimpy-leg game-winning home run in the 1988 Series-and many many more. Theyre all related by the best baseball writers the game has known: Red Smith Heywood Broun Arthur Daley John P. Carmichael Roger Kahn James T. Farrell Jimmy Cannon Leonard Koppett Tom Meany Jim Murray Ira Berkow George Vass Milt Richman Murray Chass Melvin Durslag Tom Boswell Bob Verdi Mike Royko Bob Broeg John Steadman Furman Bisher and many others. For a baseball treat that will please any fan and can keep the Hot Stove League stoked throughout the winter The Best of Baseball Digest is the sure ticket.