"Glory" question...

[53Browns]

I'm (regrettably) halfway through the audio version of the Glory of Their Times and am fascinated by the candid stories of the players. I have never read the actual book. My question is this. Does the book have even more than is on the audio CD's as far as stories and interviews? I am assuming the audio version is somewhat condensed. Any help is appreciated. I don't want to buy the book if it is exactly the same as the audio version. Thanks!

~Wild Bill

[FrankWakefield]

The book has more. It's a different more. There's more information there. Some of what's on the cd's didn't make it to the book, they complement one another.

Buy a used copy on eBay, ABEbooks, or Alibris... then if you're dissatisfied with the book you can sell it for about what you bought it for. But after you've read it, you'll want to keep the book.

[GrayGhost]

The Book has several different players I recall that didn't make the audio version. I am looking to pick the book up too, and read it again. I heard the audio version when it was on CASSETTE. haha. multiple times.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

A first edition is a wonderful thing to own, but you may wish to seek out the 1980's updated version. It includes never-before published interviews with Hank Greenberg, Specs Toporcer and George "Moon" Gibson (and at least one other IIRC). I'm not exactly sure why those interviews were excluded from the first printing; perhaps it was a matter of size restraints at the time.

[Jay Wolt]

Originally Posted by GrayGhost

I heard the audio version when it was on CASSETTE. haha. multiple times.

Here's something that predates the cassette version, the record album from 1966.
Couldn't scan all of it on my scanner bed, just the part of Rube Marquard.
ANd here's some royalty checks that I've shown a few times on N54

Frank is correct, both the book & audio complements each other, get em both.

[FrankWakefield]

There's a video, too. I don't think it is commercially available. I saw it on PBS years ago... Powerful stuff for a collector of white border cards.

Those checks are great! Gotta get me one of those...

[Jay Wolt]

Frank, The video is fantastic and was made for commercial distribution in 1987.
Now & then you'll see one on eBay.
Just scanned my copy to you can see it

[53Browns]

Thanks to Rick P. Of OLDTIX, I just bought a copy of the PBS VHS version!

[Hot Springs Bathers]

I have read the book four times, I will always consider it the best baseball book that I have ever read.

Loved it so much I have the LP, CDs and the video!

I have spoken with several SABR Deadball Era members that had the chance to visit with Mr. Ritter in his apartment before his passing. I was elated to know that they felt like he was one of the nicest people that they had ever met.

Each time they visted with him he would give them an autographed ball or photo from his visits with players from the book! That is about as close to three degrees of seperation that most of us will ever experience.