Harvey Frommer (1935–2019)

Autor de Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball

42+ Obras 939 Miembros 30 Reseñas

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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 mostrar más 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

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Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball (1992) 81 copias

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

Growing Up Jewish in America: An Oral History (1995) 71 copias

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rickey and Robinson (1978) 28 copias

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

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

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

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

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

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

Baseball's Greatest Managers (1985) 16 copias

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

Red on Red (1987) 14 copias

The New York Yankee Encyclopedia (1997) 13 copias

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

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

Jackie Robinson (Impact Biography) (1984) 8 copias

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sports Roots (1979) 4 copias

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

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

A Yankee Century and Beyond (2007) 3 copias

Sports Dates Book (1981) 3 copias

A sailing primer (1978) 2 copias

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

The sports junkie's book of trivia, terms, and lingo what they are, where they came from, and how they're used (2005) 2 copias

The Martial Arts--Judo and Karate (1978) 1 copia

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Nombre canónico: Frommer, Harvey
Fecha de nacimiento: 1935-10-10
Fecha de fallecimiento: 2019-08-01
Género: male
Nacionalidad: USA
Lugar de nacimiento: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Lugar de fallecimiento: Lyme, New Hampshire, USA
Educación: New York University (BA;MA;Ph.D.)
Ocupaciones: sports historian
sports journalist
Relaciones: Frommer, Myrna Katz (wife)
Organizaciones: Dartmouth College

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Running Tough: Memoirs of A Football Maverick por Tony Dorsett

First edition

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RCornell | Oct 30, 2023 |

Red Sox vs. Yankees: The Great Rivalry por 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 reseñas más. | Jun 14, 2023 |

Growing Up Baseball: An Oral History por 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 |