Fay Vincent
Auteur van The Only Game in Town
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Fay Vincent is a former entertainment and business executive who served as the commissioner of baseball from 1989 to 1992. He is the author of two previous volumes in his baseball oral-history trilogy, The Only Game in Town and We Would Have Played for Nothing, which feature baseball stars of the toon meer 1930s and 1940s, and the 1950s and 1960s, respectively. toon minder
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We Would Have Played for Nothing: Baseball Stars of the 1950s and 1960s Talk About the Game They Loved (Baseball Oral… (2008) 92 exemplaren
It's What's Inside the Lines That Counts: Baseball Stars of the 1970s and 1980s Talk About the Game They… (2010) 34 exemplaren
We Would Have Played for Nothing 1 exemplaar
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- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Vincent, Francis Thomas, Jr. (birth name)
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- 1938-05-29
- Geslacht
- male
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- Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA
Lakeville, Connecticut, USA - Opleiding
- Williams College
Yale Law School - Beroepen
- lawyer
businessman
baseball commissioner
lawyer - Relaties
- Giamatti, A. Bartlett (friend)
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- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Alice Lynch Vincent Scholarship Fund
Major League Baseball
Columbia Pictures
Coca-Cola Company
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We Would Have Played for Nothing: Baseball Stars of… door Fay Vincent
The worst thing about this book is the title, which is sentimental bullshit. You would have played for nothing? Then how come nearly every star of the era (the ones with leverage) was involved in protracted salary disputes? Why did they sit out Spring training and the beginnings of seasons? Why did they have mysterious injuries and even throw games for money? But most of the memories in the book *are not* sentimentalist bullshit, and several of the old players have some real insight.
½I loved this book of interviews with Baseball Hall of Famers from the 50s and 60s. The pitchers were especially interesting as they talked about different pitches and the difference in pitching then and now. Many of the stars interviewed were childhood heroes of mine like Duke Snider and Whitey Ford, which made this book especially interesting to me.
This is a fascinating collection of interviews from the former MLB commisioner with players from an era of sports (not just baseball) that is gone forever. Much like the many WWII oral history projects being recorded today, Vincent does us a great service by recording the stories of these players. My only quibble with the narrative was it seemed to have been transcribed directly from recordings without any of the normal corrections for grammar. This sometimes checks the eye of the reader but it's a small issue.… (meer)
A good book for baseball fans. It tells of a simpler time. It talks of the struggles of integration both for the black player and the Jewish player. It is nostalgic without being sappy.
The only reservation is that it comes from interviews with former players. For some reason, they did not edit the interviews very well. You are treated to the interviewees changing the subject in mid sentence.
If you can get past that, which I did, it is worth the read.
See my rel="nofollow" target="_top">other thoughts from my blog, some of which are duplicated.… (meer)
The only reservation is that it comes from interviews with former players. For some reason, they did not edit the interviews very well. You are treated to the interviewees changing the subject in mid sentence.
If you can get past that, which I did, it is worth the read.
See my rel="nofollow" target="_top">other thoughts from my blog, some of which are duplicated.… (meer)
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