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1) The Entitled: A Tale of Modern Baseball

Author

Deford, Frank

Publisher

Sourcebooks

Pub. Date

2008

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"The Entitled is a baseball masterpiece, like The Natural and Field of Dreams." —Mike Schmidt, Baseball Hall of FameFrom legendary six-time National Sportswriter of the Year and NPR commentator Frank Deford comes a richly detailed, page-turning tale that takes you deep into America's game.Howie Traveler never made it as a player-his one major league hit and .091 batting average attest to that. He was cursed with that worst of professional maladies,...

2) The old ball game: how John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants invented modern baseball

Author

Deford, Frank

Publisher

Atlantic Monthly Press

Pub. Date

2005

3) Bliss, remembered

Author

Deford, Frank

Publisher

Overlook Press

Pub. Date

c2010

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Now an elderly woman, Sydney Stringfellow recounts for her son her experiences as a swimmer at the 1936 Berlin Olympics where she had an unforgettable and forbidden love affair with the son of a Nazi diplomat.

4) Over time: my life as a sportswriter

Author

Deford, Frank

Publisher

Atlantic Monthly Press

Pub. Date

c2012

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This book is as unconventional and wide-ranging as the author's remarkable career, in which he has chronicled the heroes and the characters of just about every sport in nearly every medium. He joined Sports Illustrated in 1962, fresh out of Princeton. They called him "the Kid," and he made his reputation with dumb luck discovering fellow Princetonian Bill Bradley and a Canadian teenager named Bobby Orr. These were the Mad Men-like 1960s, and he recounts...