When the Cheering Stops: Ex-Major Leaguers Talk About Their Game and Their Lives

by Lee Heiman, Dave Weiner, Bill Gutman

This look back at ballplayers who played the game more for love than for money includes more than twenty first-person accounts and photos of the players as they were then and as they are today. These proud men reveal their disappointments and fears when it came time to hang up those spikes for good.

Genres: Sports

308 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1990

Reviews

[Jay Walsh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book for old time baseball fans. It’s worth five stars for those of us in that category. Still a good read for younger folks who may not have heard of most of the former players. Very well written short (8-10 pages) chapters on 21 former major league baseball players from the 40’s through the 70’s.

[Daniel DeLappe · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a fantastic book. It was cool reading about the utility guys from the 40s to the 60s. It’s a shame this book isn’t written every ten years and would have loved a book on Football players.