Peter Golenbock, Author Pocket Books $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-55455-2
Golenbock, coauthor of The Bronx Zoo and Balls, argues that ""dem Bums'' gave Brooklyn an identity and cohesion that disappeared when the team moved West in 1957. Featuring extensive interviews with Dodger players, fans, newspapermen and company...
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Peter Golenbock, Author Warner Books $27 (768p) ISBN 978-0-446-51950-2
Golenbock (Bronx Zoo) has put together an oral history of the Dallas Cowboys from their start in 1959 through 1996 that is definitive and fair. Here are candid portraits of initial owner Clint Murchison Jr., who ran a $1.25 billion fortune amassed...
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Peter Golenbock, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14079-3
The Chicago Cubs have not won a World Series since 1908 or the National League pennant since 1945. Yet the team has some of the most devoted fans in all of sport. Golenbock (The Bronx Zoo) looks at the reasons for the loyalty of Cubs fans, and along
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Peter Golenbock, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (545p) ISBN 978-0-312-10575-4
Martin (1928-1989) grew up poor in Berkeley, Calif. A high school drop-out, he tried out for the Oakland baseball team of the Pacific Coast League; the manager was Casey Stengel, who took Martin to New York when he became manager of the Yankees....
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Peter Golenbock, Author MacMillan Publishing Company $23 (493p) ISBN 978-0-02-544615-1
Auto racing is followed by 26% of the American public, stresses Golenbock ( Fenway ) in this survey which will serve as an ideal introduction for those interested in but unfamiliar with the sport. Beginning with the top event, the Daytona 500, he...
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Peter Golenbock, Author Putnam Publishing Group $24.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-399-13713-6
The Boston Red Sox baseball team and its home, Fenway Park, attract writers the way the Le Brea tar pits attracted saber-toothed tigers. Golenbock offers an addition to the rich catalogue of writings. But like his Personal Fouls , which caused a...
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Peter Golenbock, Author . St. Martin's $27.95 (496p) ISBN 978-0-312-27452-8
As he did in Bums, his oral history of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Golenbock presents a chorus of voices recounting the successes and notorious failures of one of the most colorful teams in baseball history. Golenbock begins with the Giants and the...
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Peter Golenbock, Author William Morrow & Company $27.5 (672p) ISBN 978-0-380-97660-7
Having chronicled the Yankees (in Dynasty), Golenbock takes a look at another storied organization, the St. Louis Cardinals, and its near-forgotten crosstown rival, the St. Louis Browns. His understated narrative guides readers through an impressive
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Peter Golenbock, Author Carol Publishing Corporation $19.95 (391p) ISBN 978-1-55972-034-2
Golenbock displayed his talent for oral history in his books on the Brooklyn Dodgers ( Bums ) and New York Yankees ( Dynasty ). Here he profiles the first year of the Senior Baseball League, a competitive league of former professional players over...
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Peter Golenbock, Author . Morrow $32.95 (684p) ISBN 978-0-06-125381-2
Brooklynites of varying ethnic and religious backgrounds tell their stories in this oral history of the newly hip New York borough of Brooklyn. Boxer Peter Spanakos, son of Greek immigrants, tells how his brother caught Peter’s Olympic...
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Peter Golenbock, Author . Lyons $24.95 (286p) ISBN 978-1-59921-270-8
This book would make Henry Miller blush. Golenbock, author of many sports books, has written a novel about baseball great Mickey Mantle. It takes place in heaven, where Mantle, talking with dead baseball writer Leonard Shecter, coauthor of Ball...
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Peter Golenbock, illus. by Dan Andreasen. Dial, $16.99 (48p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3711-2
Golenbock defines several baseball terms and phrases for each letter of the alphabet, the entries and their definitions appearing in trim sidebars that let Andreasen’s artwork take center stage. Figures like Babe Ruth and Alexander Cartwright (“The...
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Peter Golenbock, Author, Paul Bacon, Illustrator Voyager Paperbacks $6.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-284286-4
Enhanced by an unusual combination of archival photographs and vigorous illustrations, this thoughtful, noteworthy book chronicles Jackie Robinson's early days with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Ages 6-9. (Aug.)
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Peter Golenbock, Author, Paul Bacon, Illustrator Harcourt Children's Books $17 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-200603-7
Set in 1947, Teammates concerns a little-known episode about Brooklyn Dodgers' second baseman Jackie Robinson and the integration of baseball. When Dodgers shortstop Pee Wee Reese, incensed by the abuse coming from a Cincinnati crowd, determined to `
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Peter Golenbock, Author, Paul Lee, Illustrator Gulliver Books $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-202093-4
This picture book biography of one of baseball's greats inspires as well as informs. Golenbock (Teammates) deftly winnows his material to suit his audience, keeping the story line focused and lean while allowing the theme perseverance in the face of
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Peter Golenbock, Author, Paul Lee, Illustrator , illus. by Paul Lee. Harcourt/Voyager $6 (32p) ISBN 978-0-15-205250-8
"This picture book biography of one of baseball's greats inspires as well as informs. The spare, muted acrylic portraits transcend mere athleticism to capture the essential humanity of this compelling tale," wrote PW
in a starred...
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Peter Golenbock. Rowman & Littlefield, $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-538154-87-8
Sportswriter Golenbock (Dynasty) delivers a fascinating oral history of Major League Baseball in the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s, as witnessed by legendary players. Drawing on intimate interviews with stars such as Stan Musial—and others whom, like Roger...
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