Add this copy of The Pirates Reader to cart. $25.00, new condition, Sold by Balcony Books and Music rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Eugene, OR, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by University of Pittsburgh Press.
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New/Fine Dust Jacket. 0822941996 A NEW HARDCOVER OFF OUR WAREHOUSE SHELVES. 339 pages, plus 16 pages of historic photographs. Richard Peterson collects the writing of baseball's greatest storytellers, including early pioneers of sports journalism, such as Henry Chadwick, the father of baseball statistics, Alfred H. Spink, founder of The Sporting News; plus Frederick G. Lieb on Honus Wagner and Ring Lardner on Pittsburgh's first World Series championship in 1909. Later generations of baseball writers include Lester J. Biederman, Roger Angell, Thomas Boswell, George Will, Donald Hall, W. P. Kinsella, Dave Barry, and Eliot Asinof. Baseball players are represented by writings from Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth, Joe Garagiola, Ralph Kiner, and Bill Mazeroski. Pittsburgh sportswriters include Ralph S. Davis and local legend Myron Cope, plus Bob Smizik, Paul Meyer, and Ron Cook.
Add this copy of Pirates Reader to cart. $86.19, new condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2003 by University of Pittsburgh Press.
