books by Harvey Frommer

books by Harvey Frommer

books:

Harvey Frommer

Remembering Yankee Stadium: An Oral and Narrative History of "The House That Ruth Built"

Harvey Frommer

Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2008

Best of the Yankee Stadium books
This is the best of the books serving as a retrospective of Yankee Stadium, much better, in fact, than the "Official Retrospective." The interviews, photos, and layout are superior. The visual representation of ticket stubs and Stadium programs is a welcome bonus. The ...

It Happened in Brooklyn: An Oral History of Growing Up in the Borough in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s

Myrna Katz Frommer, Harvey Frommer

University of Wisconsin Press, 2004

DEFINITIVE ------New York Daily News
A PAINFUL SWEETNESS FLOODS YOU

It Happened in the Catskills: Oral History in the Words of Busboys, Bellhops, Guests, Prioprieters, ...

Myrna Katz Frommer, Harvey Frommer

University of Wisconsin Press, 2004

Engaging Book Is Nearly As Fun As The Era It Celebrates
While working at the Nevele Country Club, one of the many legendary Catskill resorts covered in this magnificent document, I briefly met Myrna and Harvey Frommer while doing their research. They probably don't remember me, I was too young at the time to offer the kind ...

Running Tough: Memoirs of A Football Maverick

Tony Dorsett, Harvey Frommer

Doubleday, 1989

just plain good life story
A very good autobiography, infact the best I have ever read. Goes through his life in detail. From Aliquippa to Pitt to Dallas and Denver and all the mishaps and action that happened in these places. It also gives good growing up details and how it was like in family. ...

A Yankee Century and Beyond
Harvey Frommer

Sourcebooks, Inc., 2007

?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 Weekly This 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 ...

A Yankee Century: A Celebration Of The First Hundred Years Of Baseball's

Harvey Frommer

Berkley Trade, 2003

How about that, folks?
In the northeast, the winter of 2003-2004 will be remembered as one of the snowiest, iciest, coldest and dreariest in recent memory. A YANKEE CENTURY was the perfect cure for those miserable days. Filled with the baseball history that took place on the sun-drenched ...

Red Sox vs. Yankees: The Great Rivalry

Harvey Frommer; Frederic J Frommer

Sports Publishing, 2005

the great history
Though I live in Japan, I know about the rivalry. The chance that I knew about the rivalry was when Hideki Matsui joined to the Yankees. In Japan Hideki Matsui was the best super star player and the most famouse player. That is why, it was natural that I had the ...

The Sports Junkies' Book of Trivia, Terms, and Lingo: What They Are, Where They Came From,and How They're Used
Harvey Frommer

Taylor Trade Publishing, 2005

Conbining two of Frommer's previous successes, Sports Lingo and Sports Roots, and supplemented with new material, this book will prove to be indispensable to nay sports enthusiast wishing to settle an argument, decipher a mysterious call, or simply persue for his or her enjoyment.

Five OClock Lightning: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and the Greatest Baseball Team in History, The 1927 New York ...

Harvey Frommer

Wiley, 2007

A solid four-bagger
Harvey Frommer brings the 1927 New York Yankees to life in Five O'Clock Lightning. While Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig were the stars of the club, readers will learn a lot about the rest of the roster, including little-known players such as Benny Bengough, George Pipgras, ...

Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball

Harvey Frommer

Taylor Trade Publishing, 1993

FASCINATING AND FAST READ
"A tremendous account. . . I must refer anyone who has any interest in the Black Sox Scandal to Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball. There is a shiny gold sticker on the jacket of Frommer's book, by the way, announcing that it contains "Never before published -- Joe ...

New York City Baseball: The Last Golden Age, 1947-1957

Harvey Frommer

University of Wisconsin Press, 2004

JUST A WONDER OF A BASEBALL BOOK /signed editions
When the lights came on again after World War II, they illuminated a nation ready for heroes and a city --New York--eager for entertainment. Baseball provided the heroes, and the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers--with their rivalries, their successes, their ...

Rickey and Robinson: The Men Who Broke Baseball's Color Barrier

Harvey Frommer

Taylor Trade Publishing, 2003

FABULOUS BOOK BY A NAME BASEBALL WRITER
Pinstripe Press Rickey and Robinson The Men Who Broke Baseball's Color Barrier Blending exclusive interviews with Rachel Robinson, Mack Robinson (Jackie's brother), Hall of Famers Monte Irvin, Duke Snider, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella, Ralph Kiner and others, - The ...

It Happened on Broadway: An Oral History of the Great White Way

Myrna Katz Frommer, Harvey Frommer

University of Wisconsin Press, 2004

Preserving the art of the theatre in an important way.
The stars, both onstage and off, that have helped create the Broadway theatre of today have committed their lives to one of the most important and vital of all the arts. This book gives them their due in a way few others have. It Happened on Broadway is a very ...

Throwing Heat: The Autobiography of Nolan Ryan

Nolan Ryan, Harvey Frommer

Doubleday, 1988

THE QUALITY OF A NOVEL; NEW YORK TIMES
This story of a talented pitcher's rise to stardom contains plenty of charm at its beginning. From throwing rocks at water moccasins in Mustang Bayou to lying ''in bed on those hot summer nights listening to [ baseball on ] the radio,'' the young Nolan Ryan was part ...

Growing Up Jewish in America: An Oral History

Myrna Katz Frommer, Harvey Frommer

Bison Books, 1999

insightful portrait-- st louis post dispatch
===Growing up Jewish IN AMERICA THIS IS a fine book for goyim. Being gentile, as far as I know, I can say that. One never knows exactly what one's roots might include. As Leon Toubin comments on a Texas community in this entertaining oral history, "We were ...