Baseball fans of a certain age may long for the good old days when they consider today's 4-hour-long games, pitch counts and players who wear pajama-style long pants.But were the good old days really that good?For Hank Greenberg, the Detroit Tiger first baseman, who in 1938 challenged Babe Ruth's 11-year-old single-season homerun record of 60, the good old days were problematic. He is the subject of Ron Kaplan's well-written social study "Hank Greenberg in 1938: Hatred and Home Runs in [...]
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