The Story Behind "Glory"

[T206Collector]

Amazing! Thanks so much for sharing. Love the book, love the audio recordings on my iPhone.

Here's a couple of index cards I have where Rube Marquard and Fred Snodgrass pitched the book. As you know, they used to get royalties from Larry for sales of the book. They pitched the book in so many of their autograph replies.

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[Aquarian Sports Cards]

I hope you've stopped pretending you're not a writer. Your post was so compelling and well-written that I now have to go get your book!

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

I hope you've stopped pretending you're not a writer. Your post was so compelling and well-written that I now have to go get your book!

Thanks for the kind words, but I'm still just a guy that happened to write a book.

[BruceinGa]

Thanks for sharing. I received my copy of "The Glory of Their Times" two days ago, a birthday present from my daughter.

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by BruceinGa

Thanks for sharing. I received my copy of "The Glory of Their Times" two days ago, a birthday present from my daughter.

That's a great daughter. She really knows her stuff.

[Jay Wolt]

Hank awesome write-up. Been a fan of Glory for over 4 decades since I read it.
I have 3 royalty checks currently running on REA, I enjoyed having them for years.
Hope I'm not in trouble for outing my own auction

https://bid.robertedwardauctions.com...e?itemid=53181

[edjs]

Hank, my favorite writing about your grandfather was this:

http://cwcfamily.org/wj/cc0.htm

When I read this, it really changed everything about my collecting perspective. You see, you are writing about my home, where my family has lived since my grandparents moved here. I know exactly where many of the locations are where your grandfather lived, went to school, etc. I always knew him as "the Weiser Wonder." Reading this, I could picture him playing back then, how hard it would have been just to travel to games (I often travel the surface streets to avoid freeway rush hours, I can't imagine before they had paved roads and modern cars trying to get from Carbon Canyon to Huntington Beach for a game!). It really made me appreciate the rich baseball history right here in my home. Thanks for all your effort in writing these stories, and bringing some light into my vision of my own "ol' stompin' grounds." If you have any images from when your family lived here in Southern California, I would love to see them.

[Hot Springs Bathers]

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.

[h2oya311]

excellent write-up Hank! I now need to go get your book. I've certainly read the Glory of Their Times and I really, really loved it! Now I also need to go and find the audio version! Not enough time in the day to do and read everything I want though...

[Vintagecatcher]

Thanks Hank!

Great read!

Patrick

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

I hope you've stopped pretending you're not a writer. Your post was so compelling and well-written that I now have to go get your book!

Ditto, as one non-writer writer to another!

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by T206Collector

Amazing! Thanks so much for sharing. Love the book, love the audio recordings on my iPhone.

Here's a couple of index cards I have where Rube Marquard and Fred Snodgrass pitched the book. As you know, they used to get royalties from Larry for sales of the book. They pitched the book in so many of their autograph replies.
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Those cards, and especially the index cards with "Glory" referenced, are fabulous. At one time, I had a nice collection of related stuff including six different players' royalty checks and a ball Larry gave me with many of their signatures. I kept my file of Larry letters and postcards, of course!