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As a sportswriter, Frank Graham, Jr., has published four books and numerous articles for Sports Illustrated, Sport, The New Republic, Saturday Evening Post, and The New York Times Magazine. Turning later to an interest in natural history and conservation, he wrote eight more books, including Since mehr anzeigen Silent Spring, The Adirondacks, and Where the Place Called Morning Lies. He is currently a field editor for Audubon and, along with his wife, Ada, has written more than two dozen books for children weniger anzeigen

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The Best American Sports Writing of the Century (1999) — Mitwirkender — 191 Exemplare

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This biography by a veteran New York sportswriter who covered the team is anecdote-driven and not truly systematic, though it does include narratives for every season of McGraw's long tenure as Giants' manager, which covered the first third of the last century. The author writes about what he knew; hence, McGraw's playing career and early life are dismissed quickly. Much of the book also duplicates, if necessarily, the author's history of the Giants. Withal, it's a pleasant read for enthusiasts of baseball of the period.… (mehr)
 
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Big_Bang_Gorilla | 1 weitere Rezension | Dec 19, 2016 |
226. Al Smith American An Informal Biography, by Frank Graham (read 6 Jan 1946) This is an informal biography indeed, but I liked it pretty well. It is the first biography of Al Smith I read but I have read several since
 
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Schmerguls | Aug 12, 2007 |
Biography of Giants manager John McGraw
 
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