Sykesville, Maryland — July 1, 2007 — Fred Glueckstein, a resident of Maryland, will be speaking and signing copies of his baseball book The ’27 Yankees, considered by many as the greatest team in the history of the game, at Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards on Saturday, July 28 at 1:00 pm.

“I am honored to have been invited by the Babe Ruth Museum to talk about the 1927 Yankees and what was the Babe’s greatest accomplishment: hitting 60 home runs,” said Fred Glueckstein. “I am also pleased to have the opportunity to be at the Sports Legend Museum on the 80th Anniversary of the historic ’27 Yankee season during the same week-end that the New York Yankees are in Baltimore to play the Orioles.”

The ’27 Yankees is the definitive historical account of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Tony Lazzeri, Earle Combs, Waite Hoyt, Herb Pennock, and teammates covering Spring Training in St. Petersburg through the World Series. Detailed, lively and richly-layered, the book is an essential baseball book on a past era and the greatest team ever.

“The search for the complete story of a team considered by many as the greatest ever was an exciting journey,” said Glueckstein, “one that opened up for me the wonderful newspapers from New York and other cities at that time, out-of-print memoirs, and the archives of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.”

After his appearance at Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards, Glueckstein will at the National Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, New York on Monday, August 20, 2007 at 10:00 am. He will be speaking and signing copies of his book as part of an all day event titled “New York Baseball in Books.”


Book Review

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“Baseball aficionados don’t agree on much. But nearly all will assent to the following: The 1927 Yankees were the greatest collection of ball players ever to lace up their spikes and take the field. After all, this was the team whose batting order earned the infamous nickname “Murderers’ Row” for its historic exploits . . . Glueckstein has carefully pieced together the story of the season by recapping newspaper articles [and other sources] published at that time. Other comments by the reviewer of The ’27 Yankees: “the book is rich in minutia . . . an enormous amount of data . . . intriguing vignettes about the individual players . . . fascinating for statisticians and baseball historians.”

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About the Author
Fred Glueckstein attended Queens College of the City University of New York and New York University. In addition to baseball, he has written extensively about horses. Fred has been published in such magazines as The Chronicle of the Horse, Horses in Art, Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred, Equestrian, ARMY magazine, Preakness Souvenir Magazine, and Finest Hour, the official publication of the Churchill Centre and International Societies. Fred is a columnist for PhelpsSports.com, a 24/7 all-equestrian sports service, and the Equestrian Network Magazine. He is also the author of Of Men, Women and Horses. Fred and his wife Eileen live in Sykesville, Maryland. They have two children, Brian and Debra.