The Story of the World Series; An Informal History

xi, [1], 333, [5] pages. Illustrations. DJ is worn, torn, soiled and chipped. Some endpaper and page soiling. Contents include Foreword, Early World Series Skirmishes, Temple Cup Series, First Blood for American League, When Matty the Great Was Supreme, Hitless Wonder White Sox Trap the Cubs, Chance Machine Rolls in High Gear, Babe Adams Becomes a National Idol, Athletics Restore American League Prestige, Fred Snodgrass Makes His Costly Muff, The Brave Miracle of 1914, Red Sox Ride Roughshod over Two Rivals, American Takes Both World War I Series, Big Blotch on Baseball's Escutcheon, Everything Happens to the Dodgers, Three Turbulent Subway Series, Senators Win One Tough Series, Lose Another, Aleck the Great Rides to the Rescue, Yankees Are Invincible, Connie Mack Regains the Spotlight, Usage's Wild Horse Runs Amok, Babe Call His Shot, Gas House Gang Brings Fresh Glory to Old League, Detroit's Tigers Finally Make It, Sweet Revenge for Colonel Ruppert, Yankee Juggernaut Rolls On, Reds Stop A. L.'s Biggest Push, McCarthy's In Again, Billy the Kid's Redbirds Stun the Yankees, Civil War on the Big Muddy, Tigers Again outlast the Cubs, Boston finally on the Losing Side, Series Becomes Two-Million-Dollar Business, and Indians Scalp the Braves. Frederick George Lieb (March 5, 1888 - June 3, 1980) was an American sportswriter and baseball historian. Lieb published his memoirs in 1977, which documented his nearly 70 years as a baseball reporter. He received the J. G. Taylor Spink Award from the Baseball Writers' Association of America in 1972. His sportswriting career began in 1909, when while working as a clerk for the Norfolk & Western Railroad he began submitting biographies of players to Baseball magazine. That led to a job with the Philadelphia news bureau; in 1911 he moved to New York where he joined the new Base Ball Writers Association. For the next 20 years, Lieb wrote for the New York Sun, Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, and New York Post, surrounded by sportswriting legends such as Damon Runyon, Heywood Broun, and Grantland Rice. Lieb is credited with coining the term "The House that Ruth Built," referring to the New York Yankees' brand new stadium that was christened by a Babe Ruth home run on their opening day, April 18, 1923. In October 1931, Fred Lieb took a team, headlined by Gehrig, Lefty Grove, Mickey Cochrane, Al Simmons, and Lefty O'Doul, to Hawaii and Japan for a profitable exhibition tour. This and many other profitable investments along the way allowed Lieb to retire in 1934 from the "real work" of daily reporting to focus solely on writing about baseball. In 1935, Taylor Spink convinced Lieb to write a regular weekly column and select obituaries for The Sporting News; Lieb did this at his leisure from his home in St. Petersburg, Florida, for 35 years. At the peak of their circulation, his syndicated columns reached more than 100 newspapers. Lieb's career would last a little over 70 years, as he continued to contribute to The Sporting News and St. Petersburg Times until his death on June 3, 1980. Lieb remained a member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) for 68 years, serving as president from 1921 to 1924. He was added to the writers' wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973. In what turned to be an early cross-generational tribute, Lieb received the first SABR salute from the Society for American Baseball Research in 1976. Over his career, Fred Lieb covered every World Series game from 1911 to 1958, 30 All-Star games, and over 8,000 major-league baseball games. Lieb was a prolific writer, contributing to The Sporting News from 1935 to 1980, the St. Petersburg Times from 1965 until his death, The Saturday Evening Post, as well as freelancing for other numerous publications, scoring games in New York, and authoring several books. His 11 books include his memoirs—Baseball As I Have Known It—along with Connie Mack, Grand Old Man of Baseball; The Story of the World Series; The Baseb.…