Harvey Frommer (1935–2019)

Autore di Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball

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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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno

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Opere di Harvey Frommer

Popolari Recenti

Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball (1992) 81 copie

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

Growing Up Jewish in America: An Oral History (1995) 72 copie

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

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

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

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

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

A Yankee Century: A Celebration of the First Hundred Years of Baseball's Greatest Team (2002) 42 copie

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

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

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

Rickey and Robinson (1978) 28 copie

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

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

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

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

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

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

Baseball's Greatest Managers (1985) 16 copie

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

Red on Red (1987) 14 copie

The New York Yankee Encyclopedia (1997) 13 copie

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

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

Jackie Robinson (Impact Biography) (1984) 8 copie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sports Roots (1979) 4 copie

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

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

A Yankee Century and Beyond (2007) 3 copie

Sports Dates Book (1981) 3 copie

A sailing primer (1978) 2 copie

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

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

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

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Informazioni generali

Nome canonico: Frommer, Harvey
Data di nascita: 1935-10-10
Data di morte: 2019-08-01
Sesso: male
Nazionalità: USA
Luogo di nascita: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Luogo di morte: Lyme, New Hampshire, USA
Istruzione: New York University (BA;MA;Ph.D.)
Attività lavorative: sports historian
sports journalist
Relazioni: Frommer, Myrna Katz (wife)
Organizzazioni: Dartmouth College

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Recensioni

Running Tough: Memoirs of A Football Maverick di Tony Dorsett

First edition

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RCornell | Oct 30, 2023 |

Red Sox vs. Yankees: The Great Rivalry di 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
… (altro)

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Mantra | 10 altre recensioni | Jun 14, 2023 |

Growing Up Baseball: An Oral History di 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 |