Author: Harvey Frommer

Written by acclaimed sports author and oral historian Harvey Frommer and with an introduction by pro football Hall of Famer Frank Gifford, When It ...

In this delightful history of the sport, Frommer captures the flavor, smell, and craziness of the early days of baseball. Starting with its inventi...

During the more than one hundred years that baseball has been our national pastime, all types of individuals have been managers of teams. They have...

Another peek at baseball's good old days—or, in this case, bad old days—by veteran sports-historian Harvey Frommer. Frommer paints Shoeless Joe as ...

This sensitive commentary on Jackie Robinson's life describes his childhood in Pasadena, through his years as a sports hero, to his later involveme...

Throughout the 2008 season, each game played at the world’s most beloved stadium brought “The House That Ruth Built” closer to shutting its gates f...

Blending exclusive rare interviews with Rachel Robinson (Jackie’s widow), Mack Robinson (Jackie’s brother), Hall of Famers Monte Irvin, Duke Snider...

In this deliciously revealing oral history of Broadway from World War II through the early 1980s, more than one hundred theater veterans—including ...

An entertaining read about the greatest baseball team, the 1927 New York Yankees, who beat up on American League rivals during the regular season a...

The rivalry between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox involves not just the teams, but the cities, owners, ballparks, fans, and the media. It...

Experience the mosaic of mid-century Manhattan in this exuberant oral history that begins in the post–World War II years when the city came into it...