Ebook {Epub PDF} Baseball As I Have Known It by Fred Lieb

The romanticism of baseball's glorious history is well documented by Fred Lieb. His unique perspective of having followed the game as a young fan growing up in Philadelphia, then covering it as a sportswriter, allows the author to offer great knowledge of his beloved sport.5/5(5).  · Fred Lieb, who covered his first ballgame in , continued on to prowl pressboxes across the land for nearly seven decades. His Baseball as I Have Known It, is aptly titled; over a long and distinguished career, he knew just about everyone worth knowing in the game, and saw pretty much everything worth seeing.  · From Honus Wagner to Johnny Bench, Baseball As I Have Known It covers sixty-six seasons of America's national sport. Fred Lieb, the dean 4/5(1).

Babe Ruth. — As quoted in Baseball as I Have Known It () by Fred Lieb, p. Tags: wasn't, baseball, penitentiary, cemetery, violent, temper, father, older, brother. 3. Share. Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world. Babe Ruth. From Honus Wagner to Johnny Bench, Baseball As I Have Known It covers sixty-six seasons of America's national sport. Fred Lieb, the dean of baseball writers, tells about its heroes, rogues, controversies, and grand plays. He broke in as a sportswriter in the Polo Grounds press box in In , in the midst of the Depression, Lieb was fired. A special treat for Old Timer's Day at any ballpark#;Lieb's recollections extend back to the game in pre-WW I days when Ty Cobb and Honus Wagner reigned and the New York Yankees were still (gulp) the Highlanders. Lieb, who was a sportswriter for assorted, now defunct, newspapers in this period, has the kind of instant-replay memory that can flash on the World Series box scores along.

Baseball As I Have Known It-Frederick George Lieb Smart Baseball-Buddy Bell What goes on in a baseball player's mind is critical to the outcome of the game. Since most major leaguers are in peak physical condition, the difference between success and failure on the field often depends on a player's mental approach. Baseball As I Have Known It Fred Lieb Baseball - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia They have to do this without getting caught by the players on the other team. Baseball started in the United States in the s and s. Many people in North America, South America, and East Asia play baseball, but the sport is most known in the United States and Japan. Verified Purchase. This book is the memoirs of Fred Lieb, an early reporter of baseball in the Deadball era. He lived to an old age and saw a lot of stars come and go. Lieb has a folksy sort of delivery, which is pretty engaging. It's hard to put the book down, as Lieb had so many stories about these characters.