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This is the glory of their times, the story of the early days of baseball told by the men who played it.

This is Larry Ritter.

I sometimes wonder what could have prompted me to embark on such a strange crusade

searching the highways and byways of America for old ballplayers,

a quest that preoccupied me for the better part of six years. For a long time, I thought my

travels had been inspired by the death of Tai Cobb in 1961, and that I was pursuing a social

goal, recording for posterity the remembrances of a sport

that had played such a significant role in American life in the early years of the 20th century.

But now on reflection, almost four decades later, I don't think my journey had much to do

with social purposes at all. Deep down,

it was a quest of a more personal nature. It so happens that my own father died at about the same

time as Ty Cobb. Still vivid in my memory is the day when I was nine years old that my father took me by the hand to my first

big league baseball game. It seems to me now that I was trying to recapture that unforgettable

ritual of childhood and draw closer to a father I would never see again, and I think that through

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