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My Greatest Day in Baseball , one of the earliest collections of the games oral histories, presents forty-seven famous stars from the golden age of baseball relating their most unforgettable moments in the sport. Ty Cobb vividly recreates the seventeenth-inning tie between the Philadelphia Athletics and Detroit Tigers with the 1908 pennant at stake. Grover Cleveland Alexander describes the day he saved the 1926 world championship for the St. Louis Cardinals. Babe Ruth recalls hitting the homer he had promised to the crowd at a 1932 World Series game. Dizzy Dean recounts a run-in with Ford Frick and a record-setting day in 1933 when he struck out seventeen Chicago Cubs. Among the other celebrated baseball figures telling their dramatic stories are Leroy Satchel Paige, Casey Stengel, Leo The Lip Durocher, Honus Wagner, Johnny Evers, Lefty Gomez, Tris Speaker, Cy Young, Pepper Martin, George Sisler, Billy Southworth, Enos Slaughter, Connie Mack, Walter Johnson, and Rogers Hornsby.

Author

as told to John P. Carmichael and other noted sports writers

Publisher

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780803263680

Subjects

Sports, Anthropology, Lifestyle

Rating

3.82 / 5 (9 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14