This is the first book to focus on a small but essential piece of every baseball game played during the last 100-plus years--the lineup card, used to record the full lineup and batting order for both teams.
This is the first book to focus on a small but essential piece of every baseball game played during the last 100-plus years--the lineup card, used to record the full lineup and batting order for both teams.
A freewheeling memoir of baseball, journalism, and New York spanning over 50 years of America's pastime Before he'd covered dozens of World Series; before he'd written about countless hirings, firings, superstars, and scandals, Bill Madden was a cub reporter on one of his first assignments at Yankee Stadium- and manager Ralph Houk had just gone out of his way to spit tobacco juice all over Madden's shoes.