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Originally Posted by CobbSpikedMe
As far as not knowing the players, you can spend a long time reading about the prewar game and players and get familiar with their legends and stories. "The Glory of Their Times" by Lawrence Ritter is a great starting place. It's an awesome book with stories told by the players themselves from interviews that Ritter had with the actual players.
It's a great time in baseball and there are lots of characters and heroes and villains.
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The Glory of Their Times is a great book! I didn't know many of the players interviewed, but their stories were fun read and my introduction to some of the great players of the era that were not named Ruth or Cobb. Ritter tracked down these players from the early 20th century and interviewed them in the early 1960's - many years after they had retired. The story of tracking down Sam Crawford is great.
Each chapter is each player's own words. When I got the book about ten years ago, I read it front to back. The great thing about this book is you can open it up and go to any chapter in the book. Great first hand stories by these players! It makes me wonder though how they can remember so much detail after so long and how accurate those stories are. It's a fun read nevertheless.