Old Ball Game How John Mcgraw, Christy Mathewson, And The New York Giants Created Modern Baseball

Frank Deford's work has appeared in virtually every medium. The author of fifteen books, he is senior contributing writer at Sports Illustrated, where his byline first appeared in 1962. A weekly commentator for NPR's Morning Edition, he is also a regular correspondent on the HBO show Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. As a journalist, Deford was most recently presented with the National Magazine Award for profiles, and has been elected to the Hall of Fame of the National Association of Sportscasters and Sportswriters. Voted by his peers as U.S. Sportswriter of the Year six times, Deford was likewise cited by The American Journalism Review as the nation's finest sportswriter.Deford, Frank is the author of 'Old Ball Game How John Mcgraw, Christy Mathewson, And The New York Giants Created Modern Baseball' with ISBN 9780871138859 and ISBN 0871138859.