In conversation with David Krell, moderated by Ben Alter; 2:30 – 3:10 pm, Morristown & Morris Township Library
Thomas Wolf
Thomas Wolf is the author of The Called Shot: Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932, finalist for the Seymour Medal from the Society for American Baseball Research, and coauthor, with Patricia Bryan, of Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America’s Heartland. His new book is Baseball in the Roaring Twenties: The Yankees, the Cardinals, and the Captivating 1926 Season.
MFOB featured book: Baseball in the Roaring Twenties: The Yankees, the Cardinals, and the Captivating 1926 Season
In the mid-1920s, America was in the throes of exuberant excess and clashing social change. It was the Golden Age of Sports. But it was also a decade of corruption amid the ominous signs of economic collapse.
Focusing on the Cardinals and Yankees and their dramatic seven-game battle in the 1926 World Series, Baseball in the Roaring Twenties tells the story of key players such as Babe Ruth and Rogers Hornsby, the Negro Leagues season, and how baseball and the inextricably linked aspects of American life—Prohibition, the Jazz Age, and the rise of sports gambling—converged that year.
