Great Thread is Right!
I read the book as a 14 year old and have been taken by the era ever since. And when I found the CD a few years ago - whoa -you gotta listen to it. To hear Chief Meyers laugh at traveling with the LA Dodgers! Hans Lobert telling what JOhn MCGraw thought of him bunting with two strikes as a rookie? It is amazing stuff and makes any car ride or work out fly by!
I too would love to get a check or some other Larry Ritter stuff related to what I call, "the book".
For now I collect photos of the players in the book from the time they were interviewed for it. Picked up a great photo of Goose Goslin at his boat dock while sifting through the SPorting News' acrhives. Love it.
The gentleman running that set up told me he owns the original UNEDITED recordings from Ritter's interviews and they will be available to buy via download in about a year.
and so I shall wait......
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