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“harvey frommer”

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  • It Happened on Broadway

    An Oral History of the Great White Way

    by Myrna Katz Frommer, Harvey Frommer, sports historian, journalist, and author of Remembering Yankee Stadium ...
    In this deliciously revealing oral history of Broadway from World War II through the early 1980s, more than one hundred theater veterans—including Carol Channing, Hal Prince, Donna McKechnie, Hal Holbrook, Andrea McArdle, and Al Hirschfeld—deliver the behind-the-scenes story of the hits, the stars, the feuds, and the fiascoes. Along the way there are evocations of the great comedians and dramatic ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Ultimate Yankee Book

    From the Beginning to Today: Trivia, Facts and Stats, Oral History, Marker Moments and Legendary Personalities—A History and Reference Book About Baseball’s Greatest Franchise

    by Harvey Frommer ...
    A timeless homage to be savored by all baseball fans, from revered sports journalist Harvey Frommer.The perfect gift for the diehard fan, an enviable treasure for yourself, The Ultimate Yankee Book is the most current and comprehensive source of trivia, people and stories from the team’s creation in 1901 to today. Harvey Frommer, the celebrated baseball historian and author of eight books about ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Jackie Robinson

    by Harvey Frommer, sports historian, journalist, and author of Remembering Yankee Stadium ...
    This sensitive commentary on Jackie Robinson's life describes his childhood in Pasadena, through his years as a sports hero, to his later involvement in politics and the Civil Rights movement. Harvey Frommer has drawn upon interviews with Robinson's family, friends, and fellow ball players to tell the story of a courageous man who triumphed over bigotry and personal tragedy to take his place in ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Yankee Century and Beyond

    A Celebration of the First Hundred Plus Years of Baseball's Greatest Team

    by Harvey Frommer ...
    "Yankee fans who can't learn enough about their favorite team will think they died and went to heaven with all that Frommer offers on each page." -Publishers WeeklyThis newly updated album captures 106 years of Yankee life in pictures, stats, words and reflections. From their beginning as the New York Highlanders, playing in Manhattan's Hilltop Park in 1903, to reigning over Major League Baseball ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • New York City Baseball

    The Golden Age, 1947–1957

    by Harvey Frommer, sports historian, journalist, and author of Remembering Yankee Stadium ...
    In the heady days after World War II, the nation was ready for excitement and heroes, and a city—New York—was eager for entertainment. Baseball provided the heroes, and the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers—with their rivalries, their successes, their stars—provided the show.New York City Baseball recaptures the extraordinary decade of 1947–1957, when the three New York teams were the uncrowned ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Manhattan at Mid-Century

    An Oral History

    by Myrna Katz Frommer, Harvey Frommer, sports historian, journalist, and author of Remembering Yankee Stadium ...
    Experience the mosaic of mid-century Manhattan in this exuberant oral history that begins in the post–World War II years when the city came into its own, and ends in the mid-1970s when it nearly went bust. This is the story of a time when great ocean liners were docked in the Hudson River ports, Checker cabs hurtled across a two-way Fifth Avenue, and the Third Avenue el cast long shadows onto the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Ultimate Yankee Book

    From the Beginning to Today: Trivia, Facts and Stats, Oral History, Marker Moments and Legendary Personalities - A History and Reference Book About Baseball’s Greatest Franchise

    by Harvey Frommer ...
    Narrated by Kyle Tait ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 39 min

    The perfect gift for the diehard fan, an enviable treasure for yourself, The Ultimate Yankee Book is the most current and comprehensive source of trivia, people, and stories from the team's creation in 1901 to today. Harvey Frommer, the celebrated baseball historian and author of eight books about the Yankees, including The New York Yankee Encyclopedia and Remembering Yankee Stadium, has outdone ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Red Sox vs. Yankees

    The Great Rivalry

    by Harvey Frommer, sports historian, journalist, and author of Remembering Yankee Stadium, Frederic J. Frommer ...
    The rivalry between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox involves not just the teams, but the cities, owners, ballparks, fans, and the media. Its roots reach back to before even Babe Ruth and Harry Frazee, yet it is as contemporary as the next Red Sox–Yankees game. This book tells the story of the rivalry from the first game these epic teams played against each other in 1901 through the 2013 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Five O'Clock Lightning

    Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and the Greatest Baseball Team in History, the 1927 New York Yankees

    by Harvey Frommer, sports historian, journalist, and author of Remembering Yankee Stadium ...
    An entertaining read about the greatest baseball team, the 1927 New York Yankees, who beat up on American League rivals during the regular season and then swept the World Series. With verve, facts, and stories, Harvey Frommer evokes the Murderers' Row of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Miller Huggins, Tony Lazerri, Bob Meusel, and more. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball

    by Harvey Frommer, sports historian, journalist, and author of Remembering Yankee Stadium ...
    Another peek at baseball's good old days—or, in this case, bad old days—by veteran sports-historian Harvey Frommer. Frommer paints Shoeless Joe as a baseball natural ("Joe Jackson hit the ball harder than any man ever to play baseball"—Ty Cobb), an illiterate hick (his table utensils consisted of knife and fingers), and an innocent man snared by the greatest scandal in baseball history. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Baseball's Greatest Managers

    by Harvey Frommer, sports historian, journalist, and author of Remembering Yankee Stadium ...
    During the more than one hundred years that baseball has been our national pastime, all types of individuals have been managers of teams. They have run the gamut from political appointees to tyrants, schemers, incompetents and geniuses. Legendary baseball stars have been managers such as Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Walter Johnson, Mel Ott, George Sisler, and Honus Wagner. And Mediocre players, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Old Time Baseball

    America's Pastime in the Gilded Age

    by Harvey Frommer, sports historian, journalist, and author of Remembering Yankee Stadium ...
    In this delightful history of the sport, Frommer captures the flavor, smell, and craziness of the early days of baseball. Starting with its invention in 1842 by the descendant of a British sea captain (and not Abner Doubleday), Frommer traces the development of the sport from the first games on a vacant lot at 27th and Madison in New York to the turn of the century, when the National League was ... Read more

    $9.99 USD