The Glory of Their Times : The Story of Baseball Told By the Men Who Played It

“Almost perfect . . . a vivid, gentle, and humorous narrative, accompanied by marvelous photographs.”
— Roger Angell, New Yorker

“I could happily reread every summer for the rest of my life that greatest of all baseball books, The Glory of Their Times.”
— Stephen Jay Gould, New York Times Book Review

“Warm, happy, exciting . . . The day after I finished it I started reading it all over again.”
— Ted Williams

From Lawrence Ritter (The Image of Their Greatness, The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time), comes one of the bestselling, most acclaimed sports books of all time, The Glory of Their Times—now a Harper Perennial Modern Classic.