Memories of a Ballplayer: Bill Werber and Baseball in the 1930s (Hardback)
Memories of a Ballplayer: Bill Werber and Baseball in the 1930s (Hardback)
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At the time of his death at the age of 100 in 2009, Bill Werber was the oldest living player in Major League Baseball. He was also both the final surviving teammate of
Babe Ruth as well as the last living opponent of Ruth while Ruth was with the New York Yankees.
Werber played baseball as a third baseman for the New York Yankees, the Boston Red Sox, the Philadelphia Athletics (now the Oakland Athletics), the Cincinnati Reds, and the New York Giants (now the San Francisco Giants). He play in the major leagues from 1930 to 1942.
The focus of the book is American baseball in the 1930s, during the time of the player legends and now Hall-of-Famers Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, Joe DiMaggio, Rogers Hornsby, and Johnny Mize.
Werner was urged by his publisher to write one final chapter to "tie the book together." The Afterword is Werner's brief autobiography.
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PUBLISHER: Cushing-Malloy
ISBN-13: 9780910137843
ISBN-10: 0910137846