Noted baseball historian Norman L. Macht brings together a
wide-ranging collection of baseball voices from the Deadball Era
through the 1970s, including nine Hall of Famers, who take the
reader onto the field, into the dugouts and clubhouses, and inside
the minds of both players and managers. These engaging,
wide-ranging oral histories bring surprising revelations-both
highlights and lowlights-about their careers, as they revisit their
personal mental scrapbooks of the days when they played the game.
Not all of baseball's best stories are told by its biggest stars,
especially when the stories are about those stars. Many of the
storytellers you'll meet in They Played the Game are unknown to
today's fans: the Red Sox's Charlie Wagner talks about what it was
like to be Ted Williams's roommate in Williams's rookie year; the
Dodgers' John Roseboro recounts his strategy when catching for Don
Drysdale and Sandy Koufax; former Yankee Mark Koenig recalls
batting ahead of Babe Ruth in the lineup, and sometimes staying out
too late with him; John Francis Daley talks about batting against
Walter Johnson; Carmen Hill describes pitching against Babe Ruth in
the 1927 World Series.
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