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The 10 worst years of baseball: The zany, true story of baseball in the Forties

1 review
William B Mead

Van Nostrand Reinhold Co, 1982

Baseball in the 40's
A history of major league baseball during the 1940's, told mainly from the perspective of the St. Louis Browns. WW II had taken its toll on team rosters, leaving only "the lame, the too old, the too young, and the too slow" behind to play the National Pastime. Mead has researched thoroughly the time period and conducted interviews with many of the players. The interviews are, as usual in books ...

The Official New York Yankees Hater's Handbook

1 review
William B. Mead

Putnam Publishing Group, 1983

A must for anyone who hates the Yankees
Full of Yankees bashing information and real accounts from past and present players. Anyone who wants to know the truth about the Yankees' "dynasty" must read this book!

The Inside Game (World of Baseball)

1 review
William B. Mead

Redefinition, Inc., 1991

An illustrated book on how to play the game with your brains
Yogi Berra once said that "Ninety percent of baseball is mental and the other half is physical." Well, "The Inside Game: Baseball's Master Strategists" is devoted to the mental health of the equation, starting with the pitching, fundamentals and three-run homer formula of Earl Weaver to the platoon management of Casey Stengel with Whitey Herzog's "Whiteyball" in between. William B. Mead's book ...

Baseball Goes to War

4 reviews
William B. Mead

Broadcast Interview Source, 1998

A splendid account of Baseball in the Forties
William Mead's wonderful book about a baseball in the 1940's has appeared under several titles (EVEN THE BROWNS, BASEBALL'S WORST DECADE). In each guise it is a sprightly written and judicious account of the personalities (Judge Landis, Pete Gray) and events of baseball in a time of national crisis.

Even the Browns

1 review
William B Mead

Contemporary Books, 1978

For Historical Baseball Fans
Journalist William Mead wrote this interesting look at the St. Louis Browns and baseball during World War II. Mead examines some history of this underdog franchise, which won its only American League pennant in 1944 as most big-leaguers were in military uniform. The 1944 Browns squeezed out a pennant on the last day with a typical wartime roster of aged players and some 4-F's whose minor ...

Baseball: The Presidents' Game

2 reviews
William B. Mead, Paul Dickson

Walker & Company, 1997

Hail to the Chiefs Hailing Baseball
For those who have wondered about the tradition of our nation's leader throwing out the first pitch of the season, here is your answer. Authors Mead and Dickson have compiled this entertaining look at how each president, beginning with one of the most UNathletic chief executives, William Howard Taft, has related to the national pastime. For example, while rough- and-ready Teddy Roosevelt was ...