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Interplay Sports Baseball 2000 Sony Playstation Game
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UPC:040421004058
Condition:Used
Genre:Sports
Platform:Playstation 1
Region:NTSC (N. America)
ESRB:Everyone
SKU:PS1_INTERPLAY_SPORTS_BASEBALL_2000
———This game is fully cleaned, tested & working. Includes the Disc/Cartridge Only. May have some minor scratches/scuffs.This description was last updated on October 28th, 2020.
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Lawrence Ritter’s iconic book vividly comes to life in this recording of interviews with yesterday’s baseball players from the turn of the century. It’s as though you’re sitting in the parlor having a conversation with them yourself!
This is for the baseball connoisseur. I’m sure not everyone will enjoy listening to old men talk about the early days of baseball. Most people aren’t interested in anything that happened more than ten years ago. But if you’re interested in listening to stories of the very early years of baseball, then this is for you. Most of them are actually fascinating.
I am a huge baseball fan, and really appreciate the history of the game. I’ve watched Ken Burns’ Baseball probably a half-dozen times. As such, I’m the exact target audience for Lawrence S. Ritter’s book, The Glory of Their Times: The Story Of The Early Days Of Baseball Told By The Men Who Played It. This book was absolutely fantastic, and I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone with any interest at all in baseball. Even if you aren’t currently interested in the game’s history, you will be by the time you finish The Glory of Their Times.Originally published in 1966 including interviews with 22 players from the early 20th century, and expanded in 1984 with an additional four player interviews, Ritter sets out to capture the memories of the earliest players of the game for the ages, and does so brilliantly. The book consists of a chapter for each player interviewed, and Ritter lets the player tell their own story in their own way. It’s absolutely fascinating to hear these players echoing through the decades and describing the way they played the game, their careers, their teammates, their managers, the business of baseball, and even the fans of the day as seen from the player’s view.One of the aspects of the book that I enjoyed most is that many of the players discuss the same events or players, including each other, and it’s great getting different takes on all of that. You’ll hear all about what the players of the day, including his teammates, thought of Merkle’s Boner.
Kept my interest all through. While there are some allusions to ‘the greats’ – Cobb, Ruth, Gehrig – it is insightful to ‘listen to’ the guys who were there, played almost just as well, or close to ‘the greats’ , and hear their stories. You will recognize a lot of their quotes from Ken Burns’ ‘Baseball.’
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Believe what they say. This truly is one of the best baseball books ever produced. If you’ve seen Ken Burns’ “Baseball” or read much of anything about baseball around the turn of the twentieth century, then you will likely notice that a fair amount of their material is drawn from this book.The book is essentially a primary source to baseball in the old days. When Ty Cobb died, Lawrence Ritter decided that someone needed to interview the ballplayers from that era before they were all gone. This book is the result of those interviews.Ritter wisely chooses to omit his questions, so each chapter, devoted to a single ballplayer, simply reads as though that particular player is giving his own reflections. There are a few places where the player repeats the question in his response, and at those moments you realize that he is being interviewed. Mostly, however, the chapters just read as though you are sitting back and listening to these gentlemen recall their glory days.Ritter’s editing is well done because it is so inconspicuous in this way. His editing is also masterful, however, in how he chooses to end each chapter. No doubt the conversations did not end precisely as the book chapters do, but Ritter almost always manages to conclude the chapter in a satisfying way, with the player coming back to some fun anecdote he had mentioned earlier, or a life lesson that ties his recollections together into a meaningful whole. While the players themselves are telling the story, Ritter weav.
All the hype about this book is true. It’s the best book about baseball ever written. And, it’s told by the players themselves, warts and all. It’s an oral history of the early days of the game.Honus Wagner talks about playing third base with a first baseman’s glove. One coach talked about sending the batboy down to the saloon to fetch a player when it was his time to bat. The book itself isn’t so much a history of baseball with loads of statistics, it’s a book about the players- 22 of them.Even if you don’t like baseball, you will be fascinated by the stories of the men who played the game.Jimmy Austin , "When I first came to the Big Leagues they didn’t have clubhouses in most parks, especially not for the visiting team. We’d get into uniform at the hotel and ride out to the park in a bus drawn by four horses. We’d sit on the seats along the sides and ride, in uniform, to the park and back.Kids running alongside as we went past, rotten tomatoes once in a while."Rube Bressler on Ty Cobb. "His determination was fantastic. I never saw anybody like him. It was his base. It was his game. Everything was his. The most feared man in baseball."Tommy Leach on the World Series of 1903. "That was probably the wildest ever played. The fans were part of the game in those days. They’d pour right out onto the field and argue with players and umpires. Was sort of hard to keep the game going sometimes, to say the least."
One of the best Baseball books EVER! To read the stories these old timers tell is pure joy.
Reading this book was like watching a good baseball game on a nice spring day. Very relaxing. Very engrossing. Very pleasant. This is a book of memories by a number of old time baseball greats from the late teens to the early 1940s. Each tells of his career, its high points and low, and the many characters that inhabited the game during those years. Baseball was different then. Less intense. More tedious travel in buses or Pullman trains. Each player tells how he got into the game — most attracted attention while they were on the sandlots in small American towns. To a man, they are humble in their descriptions of their own achievements and generous in their comments about teammates and opponents. Ritter has done a superlative job of drawing from these greats their observations and memories. The blurb on the back cover of the paperback version carries a quote: “Easily the best baseball book ever produced by anyone.” That’s probably no exageration.
Any lover of baseball history should obtain this, as it’s a pleasure to listen to these gentlemen discussing their lives and careers. Having read Ritter’s classic book was one thing, but to hear these men’s voice was a sheer pleasure. One knows they wish they could step up to the plate or on the pitcher’s mound once again, and I for one would have cherished watching them.