baseball from the twenties to the forties told by the men who played it
Honig, Donald
1993
Contains interviews with former big-league baseball players who share their memories about what it was like to play America's favorite sport in the years between the 1920s and the 1940s.
Billy Prescott, a $40,000 bonus baby, finds his first year of professional baseball playing difficult as he learns to cope with fickle fans and earns the respect of a former major league star.