Harvey Frommer (1935–2019)

Auteur van Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball

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Harvey Frommer was a sports historian who wrote extensively about the Yankees and collaborated with his wife on lively oral histories of Brooklyn, the Catskills and Broadway. Mr. Frommer had a fascination with baseball that began in Brooklyn during the 1940s and ¿50s, when the Dodgers, Yankees and toon meer Giants dazzled New York City with players like Jackie Robinson, Joe DiMaggio and Willie Mays. In his book New York City Baseball: The Last Golden Age, 1947-1957 (1980), Mr. Frommer described a three-team universe captured by radio.He contunued writng for 40 years. His dozens of books include an exploration of Robinson¿s breaking baseball¿s modern color barrier in 1947 and Shoeless Joe Jackson¿s banishment from baseball for his supposed role in fixing the 1919 World Series with seven Chicago White Sox teammates. He also wrote autobiographies of Hall of Fame personalities like the fireballing pitcher Nolan Ryan and the Dallas Cowboys running back Tony Dorsett. Mr. Frommer focused on the Yankees in the 1990s with books like The New York Yankee Encyclopedia (1997); A Yankee Century: A Celebration of the First Hundred Years of Baseball¿s Greatest Team (2002); and Five O¿Clock Lightning (2008), about the slugging 1927 team led by Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Harry Frommer passed away on August 1, 2019, from metastatic lung cancer at his home in Lyme, N.H. He was 83 years old. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

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Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball (1992) 81 exemplaren

Throwing Heat: The Autobiography of Nolan Ryan (1988) 80 exemplaren

Growing Up Jewish in America: An Oral History (1995) 72 exemplaren

It Happened on Broadway: An Oral History of the Great White Way (1998) 68 exemplaren

New York City baseball: The last golden age, 1947-1957 (1980) 57 exemplaren

Red Sox vs. Yankees: The Great Rivalry (2004) 48 exemplaren

It Happened In Manhattan: An Oral History of Life in the City During The Mid-20th Century (2001) 48 exemplaren

It Happened in Brooklyn: An Oral History of Growing Up in the Borough in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s (1993) 43 exemplaren

A Yankee Century: A Celebration of the First Hundred Years of Baseball's Greatest Team (2002) 41 exemplaren

Remembering Yankee Stadium: An Oral and Narrative History of "The House That Ruth Built" (2008) 37 exemplaren

It Happened in the Catskills: An Oral History in the Words of Busboys, Bellhops, Guests, Proprietors, Comedians,… (1991) 34 exemplaren

Old Time Baseball: America's Pastime in the Gilded Age (2005) 28 exemplaren

Rickey and Robinson (1978) 28 exemplaren

Primitive Baseball: The First Quarter Century of the National Pastime (1988) 27 exemplaren

Five o'clock lightning : Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and the greatest baseball team in history, the 1927 New York Yankees (2007) 22 exemplaren

Running Tough: Memoirs of A Football Maverick (1989) 19 exemplaren

Big Apple Baseball: An Illustrated History from the Boroughs to the Ballparks (1995) 17 exemplaren

Remembering Fenway Park: An Oral and Narrative History of the Home of the Boston Red Sox (2011) 17 exemplaren

When It Was Just a Game: Remembering the First Super Bowl (2015) 16 exemplaren

Baseball's Greatest Managers (1985) 16 exemplaren

Baseball's Greatest Rivalry: The New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox (1982) 16 exemplaren

Red on Red (1987) 14 exemplaren

The New York Yankee Encyclopedia (1997) 13 exemplaren

Manhattan at Mid-Century: An Oral History (2013) 11 exemplaren

Growing Up Baseball: An Oral History (2001) 10 exemplaren

Jackie Robinson (Impact Biography) (1984) 8 exemplaren

The Ultimate Yankee Book: From the Beginning to Today: Trivia, Facts and Stats, Oral History, Marker Moments and… (2017) 8 exemplaren

Behind the Lines: A Veteran Quarterback's Look Inside the NFL (1991) 8 exemplaren

Olympic Controversies (An Impact Book) (1987) 7 exemplaren

Growing Up at Bat: 50 Years of Little League Baseball (1989) 6 exemplaren

Where Have All Our Red Sox Gone? (2006) 6 exemplaren

Baseball's Hall of Fame (A First Book) (1985) 5 exemplaren

Sports Lingo: A Dictionary of the Language of Sports (1979) 5 exemplaren

Sports Roots (1979) 4 exemplaren

150th Anniversary Album of Baseball (Picture Albums) (1988) 4 exemplaren

Baseball's greatest records : streaks and feats (1983) 3 exemplaren

A Yankee Century and Beyond (2007) 3 exemplaren

Sports Dates Book (1981) 3 exemplaren

A sailing primer (1978) 2 exemplaren

It happened in Miami, the Magic City: An Oral History (2015) 2 exemplaren

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Gangbare naam: Frommer, Harvey
Geboortedatum: 1935-10-10
Overlijdensdatum: 2019-08-01
Geslacht: male
Nationaliteit: USA
Geboorteplaats: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Plaats van overlijden: Lyme, New Hampshire, USA
Opleiding: New York University (BA;MA;Ph.D.)
Beroepen: sports historian
sports journalist
Relaties: Frommer, Myrna Katz (wife)
Organisaties: Dartmouth College

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Running Tough: Memoirs of A Football Maverick door Tony Dorsett

First edition

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RCornell | Oct 30, 2023 |

Red Sox vs. Yankees: The Great Rivalry door Harvey Frommer

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What a marvelous book!
I'm a lifelong Yankees fan and this book brought back tons of wonderful
memories that I hadn't thought about in a long time - Boone's HR, the
2003 ALCS, the Boston Massacre, and several I'd just as soon forget!
I also learned things I didn't know. Everyone knows about the sale of
Ruth to the Yankees, but I didn't know just how much Boston was effectively
the Yankees farm team around that time. I never knew that the Yankees offered
Lou Gehrig to Boston and they passed on him!
Any real baseball fan will find plenty of stories in here to enjoy, bring
back memories, but especially if you're a Boston or New York fan.
The only thing that would have made this book better is if it had left out
everything about the 2004 post-season! LOL
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Mantra | 10 andere besprekingen | Jun 14, 2023 |

Growing Up Baseball: An Oral History door Harvey Frommer

Ugh, it really felt like the authors sent every player in here the same form sheet and then turned their answers into a very formulaic, very boring, poorly written book. The sentence structure is all very short and choppy, the revelations are all big news, such as Dale Berra saying "Dad said Nolan (Ryan) threw very hard." Groundbreaking stuff! I slogged through it because I don't like to leave a book unfinished, but damn...

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MrMet | Apr 28, 2023 |