Hank this was just a fabulous piece! I wrote Mr. Ritter on several occasions while researching early spring training here in Hot Springs and received wonderful replies. The book drove my interest into the dead ball era from the moment I read it.
It also led me to long drives to Cooperstown and to collecting tobacco cards, all of which I am thankful for to this day some 40 plus years later. I too loved your book and do consider it one of the top baseball bios ever written.
It was with great sadness that I picked up the latest edition of the Beckett Vintage Collector a couple of weeks ago. While at first I read with excitement that there was an article on "Glory" and its' connection to the T206s, I then found Andy Broome's article in the index referring to "Red Barber's classic book" and then found it repeated again below the title in the article. While Mr. Broome's article was nice the continued mistakes in this Beckett publication render almost unreadable.
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