Morey, Ritter & the Glory of Their Times

[David W]

Here is an article Morey wrote for the March 1961 "Card Comments" on how to get autographs.

[teetwoohsix]

Very cool !!! Thanks for sharing this with us.........LOVE that T206 !!!!

Clayton

[toppcat]

The Glory of Their Times and The Boys of Summer are the two books directly responsible for me becoming very interested in the history of baseball. I read both of them when I was about 13 and they have stuck with me for a long, long time now.

[FrankWakefield]

Paul, that is one fine letter. I wrote Mr. Ritter about 7 years ago, hoping to get his autograph, but I got no reply. Great article, David.

It seems to me that a collector of our dear old cards must read The Glory of Their Times, I love the source of the title, and the "How dear to my heart" verse at the beginning of a couple of the chapters. We all owe Mr. Ritter a debt of gratitude. What a book!!!

[Kawika]

Originally Posted by FrankWakefield

We all owe Mr. Ritter a debt of gratitude. What a book!!!

What Frank said. Aficionados of baseball in those thrilling days of yesteryear would be infinitely more poor if Lawrence Ritter had not undertaken his oral history project.

[rc4157]

I agree with all regarding the excellence of the book, plus if you haven't had a chance to listen to the audio interviews that Mr. Ritter recorded during his research, it is something you should definitely do.

There are about 5 hours of audio with this cd set.

RC

[Jay Wolt]

Paul, great stuff, thanks for posting the letter
The Glory Of Their Times is a great book & every hobbist should read it.

Here are some of my royalty checks from Ritter

[baseballart]

Originally Posted by FrankWakefield

Paul, that is one fine letter. I wrote Mr. Ritter about 7 years ago, hoping to get his autograph, but I got no reply. Great article, David.

It seems to me that a collector of our dear old cards must read The Glory of Their Times, I love the source of the title, and the "How dear to my heart" verse at the beginning of a couple of the chapters. We all owe Mr. Ritter a debt of gratitude. What a book!!!

Frank

Larry passed away in February 2004.


Max

[joeadcock]

Great thread

[WillowGrove]

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......