In many ways this book began about 50 years ago with another book about baseball. When I was growing up in Wayne, New Jersey, in the 1950s, I had two passions—baseball and books. As my interest in baseball grew, I tried to read every book I could find about the sport. One in particular, John Carmichael’s My Greatest Day in Baseball, stood out. Written well before Lawrence Ritter’s classic, The Glory of Their Times, Carmichael’s book is comprised of brief accounts of the memorable moments of legendary players. Although not the in-depth interviews that Ritter compiled, Carmichael had the advantage of being able to include the stories of.
