Now stepping up to the plate…Peter Golenbock

Been a while since we’ve seen a new project from Peter Golenbock. But the wait is over.

Reprinted with permission from his Facebook post:

I have a new book coming in the spring that I want to tell you all about. In 1966 the baseball world was gripped by a book entitled The Glory of Their Times, written by Larry Ritter, who recorded reminiscences of baseball players, famous and not so famous, who played in the 1910s and the 1920s. The book soon became known as Baseball‘s Bible and is revered because it provides readers a unique personal look into baseball during a long-gone era.

My new book, which I am calling Whispers of the Gods is the sequel. The baseball players in this book, important figures all but no longer living, played in the 1940s, the 1950s, and into the 1960s. I interviewed them all in the course of my writing team histories. We hear from Hall of Famers Roy Campanella, Ted Williams, Phil Rizzuto, Stan Musial, Monte Irvin, and Ron Santo. Other notables include Roger Maris, Gene Conley, Kirby Higbe, Ellis Clary, Rex Barney, and Jim Bouton, who describes the height of Yankee success during the dynasty era and how and why it fell so hard and so fast. Ed Froelich, who was Cubs, Yankees, and Red Sox manager Joe McCarthy’s trainer, describes a frank conversation with Babe Ruth, in which The Babe explains to him that he never called his shot, that the story is a myth spread by sportswriters.

Baseball fans never can get enough nostalgia for their youth, and Whispers of the Gods, like The Glory of Their Times, is filled with wonderful stories and personal reminiscence of owners, managers, teammates and opponents. The nostalgia in page after page of this book is irresistible.

This is history told by those who made it happen. It’s a chance to relive great moments of your youth all over again. I’m posting this now because in today’s new world of publishing, publishers do exactly nothing to publicize their books. They are counting on the authors to do that. I know a lot of my Facebook friends are baseball lovers, so six months before this book even gets printed, I wanted to tell you about it. Larry Ritter wrote a priceless book.. What I am trying to do is duplicate what he set out to do, only with another magical set of memories.