Harvey Frommer (1935–2019)
Autor(a) de Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
Obras de Harvey Frommer
It Happened In Manhattan: An Oral History of Life in the City During The Mid-20th Century (2001) 48 cópias
It Happened in Brooklyn: An Oral History of Growing Up in the Borough in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s (1993) 43 cópias
A Yankee Century: A Celebration of the First Hundred Years of Baseball's Greatest Team (2002) 41 cópias
Remembering Yankee Stadium: An Oral and Narrative History of "The House That Ruth Built" (2008) 37 cópias
It Happened in the Catskills: An Oral History in the Words of Busboys, Bellhops, Guests, Proprietors, Comedians,… (1991) 34 cópias
Five o'clock lightning : Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and the greatest baseball team in history, the 1927 New York Yankees (2007) 22 cópias
Remembering Fenway Park: An Oral and Narrative History of the Home of the Boston Red Sox (2011) 17 cópias
The Ultimate Yankee Book: From the Beginning to Today: Trivia, Facts and Stats, Oral History, Marker Moments and… (2017) 8 cópias
Associated Works
Baseball, the Perfect Game : An All-Star Anthology Celebrating the Game's Greatest Players, Teams, and Moments (2005) — Contribuinte — 19 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Frommer, Harvey
- Data de nascimento
- 1935-10-10
- Data de falecimento
- 2019-08-01
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Lyme, New Hampshire, USA
- Educação
- New York University (BA;MA;Ph.D.)
- Ocupação
- sports historian
sports journalist - Relacionamentos
- Frommer, Myrna Katz (wife)
- Organizações
- Dartmouth College
Membros
Resenhas
Running Tough: Memoirs of A Football Maverick de Tony Dorsett
First edition
Esta resenha foi escrita no âmbito dos Primeiros Resenhistas do LibraryThing.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
… (mais)
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
… (mais)
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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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 42
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 939
- Popularidade
- #27,357
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Resenhas
- 30
- ISBNs
- 98
