Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/009097533/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 27 of
27
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract ""As the younger Frank tells more of the story, we watch Lou Gehrig take Babe Ruth's place as the Yankee's star and then trace his glorious career to its tragic conclusion. We see firsthand the legendary Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson and boxing's brief but golden age on television in the 1950s." "Aided by sixteen photographs and preserving the most masterful of his father's writing while adding to it the best of his own, Frank Graham, Jr., has given the sports fan A Farewell to Heroes, perhaps the ultimate sports reminiscence of a time when the romance of sport gave life a golden hue, when heroes still roamed the earth."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12809613.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""As the younger Frank tells more of the story, we watch Lou Gehrig take Babe Ruth's place as the Yankee's star and then trace his glorious career to its tragic conclusion. We see firsthand the legendary Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson and boxing's brief but golden age on television in the 1950s." "Aided by sixteen photographs and preserving the most masterful of his father's writing while adding to it the best of his own, Frank Graham, Jr., has given the sports fan A Farewell to Heroes, perhaps the ultimate sports reminiscence of a time when the romance of sport gave life a golden hue, when heroes still roamed the earth."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Out of Harlem -- The endless adventure -- I am born -- Star reporter -- The greatest story -- In the dugout -- The blood sport (I) -- The blood sport (II) -- A vanished world -- Security blanket -- Father and son -- The hero -- Fight night at the Garden -- The champ's pal -- The hero recaptured -- From the mailbag -- The road to Brooklyn -- Prospects and snake oil -- The creeping terror -- Transition -- Shoptalk -- Madder music, stronger wine -- Libel -- Quixote tumbled.".
- catalog extent "xxv, 302 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0809324911 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "070.4/49796/092 B 21".
- catalog subject "GV742.42.G7 A34 2003".
- catalog subject "Graham, Frank, 1893-".
- catalog subject "Graham, Frank, 1893-1965.".
- catalog subject "Graham, Frank, 1925-".
- catalog subject "Sports United States History.".
- catalog subject "Sportswriters United States Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Out of Harlem -- The endless adventure -- I am born -- Star reporter -- The greatest story -- In the dugout -- The blood sport (I) -- The blood sport (II) -- A vanished world -- Security blanket -- Father and son -- The hero -- Fight night at the Garden -- The champ's pal -- The hero recaptured -- From the mailbag -- The road to Brooklyn -- Prospects and snake oil -- The creeping terror -- Transition -- Shoptalk -- Madder music, stronger wine -- Libel -- Quixote tumbled.".
- catalog title "A farewell to heroes / Frank Graham, Jr. ; with a new foreword by W.C. Heinz.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".