personal history
Early Innings
How it felt to be a young baseball fan in nineteen-thirties New York, with heroes like Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, and Babe Ruth.
February 24, 1992
New YorkerestEssential reads from every New Yorker issue
personal history
How it felt to be a young baseball fan in nineteen-thirties New York, with heroes like Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, and Babe Ruth.