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Willie's Time: Baseball's Golden Age (Writing Baseball)
Willie's Time Baseball's Golden Age - Writing Baseball Author:Charles Einstein This twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Willies Time: Baseballs Golden Age restores to print Charles Einsteins vivid biography of one of baseballs foremost legends. With a new preface from the author, this volume replays the most dramatic moments of the Say Hey Kids careerfrom the 1951 Miracle Giants to the A... more »mazing Mets of 1973and takes us inside the lives of Ruth, DiMaggio, Aaron, Durocher, and others along the way. Einstein offers a compelling and complete look at Mays: as a youth in racist Birmingham, a triumphant symbol of African American success, a sports hero lionized by fans, and yet all the while, still a very human figure destined to play for two decades amid baseballs Golden Age. First published in 1979, Willie's Time is the only ballplayer biography ever named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.« less