The National League Story: The Official History. Foreword by Warren Giles. (Signed by Lee Allen.)

ALLEN, Lee [Leland Gaither] (1915-1969):

Editore: New York: Hill & Wang, 1961., 1961

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First Edition. Original cloth. Very Good, in dust jacket. Signed by Lee Allen on the front flyleaf. 'In early 1959, the National Baseball Hall of Fame announced that Allen would replace retiring Ernest J. Lanigan as historian. It was a propitious appointment for both the Hall and Allen who brought with him to Cooperstown not only his knowledge and research skills, but also a vast baseball library. . . . Allen established a daily routine that included meeting a steady stream of visitors, answering mail as soon as it arrived, and chipping away at the long-range research projects he set for himself. His workdays soon stretched to twelve hours and his weeks to seven days. . . . Allen did not sit on his research. He turned it into a long list of articles, innumerable speeches to dozens of groups, and a series of books renowned for their original insights. In The National League: The Official History (1961), for example, he used his unprecedented access to league documents and correspondence to throw new light on pivotal events such as Fred Merkle's 'boner' and Hal Chase's involvement in fixing games' (Steve Gietschier, 'Lee Allen', Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) Web site). Codice articolo 22078

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Titolo: The National League Story: The Official ...

Casa editrice: New York: Hill & Wang, 1961.

Data di pubblicazione: 1961

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Very Good

Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good

autografato: Signed by Author(s)

Edizione: 1st Edition