imes, by Lawrence Ritter, I'd Rather Be A Yankee, by John Tulles and The Boys of Summer, by Roger Kahn.
             Old-time baseball players and fans love to denigrate the modern ballplayer. "Baseball today is not what it should be," one old-timer once wrote. "The players do not try to learn all the fine points of the game as in the days of old, but dimply try to get by. They content themselves if they get a couple of hits every day or play an errorless game...It's positively a shame, they are getting big money for it, too." These judgments usually treat the same themes: greed, selfishness, and lack of fundamentals. However, they're nothing new; Bill Joyce, a third baseman and manager wrote the above statement in 1916. When today's old-timers talk of the old days, their conversation almost ine
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