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Lawrence S. Ritter (1922 - 2004) was a writer whose specialty was baseball. He wrote one of the more famous sports books, The Glory of Their Times. Jump to: navigation, search 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... The Glory Of Their Times: The Story Of The Early Days Of Baseball Told By The Men Who Played It is a book, edited by Lawrence Ritter, telling the stories of early 20th century baseball. ...
Ritter was born in New York City on October 21, 1940.
In 1978, Ritter ran as the Republican candidate for the Fifteenth District, Pennsylvania to the U.S. House of Representatives, an area that includes Northampton and Lehigh Counties.
Ritter was defeated in his reelection bid in 1992 but remained active in politics and industry.
Lawrence S. Ritter, whose pioneering oral history, "The Glory of Their Times,"; recounted the baseball world of the early 20th century, died Sunday at his apartment in Manhattan.
Ritter traveled 75,000 miles in a five-year period to hear the voices from an era when roughneck ballplayers came out of farms and small towns with battered suitcases, when baseballs were dead and spitballs were alive.
Ritter located old-time baseball stars living in obscurity and asked them of a time when their deeds were the stuff of headlines.
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