Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Incredible Giants
As president OF the national league, IT IS only natural that I Should have a high interest in a book on baseball. Any book on any segment of baseball, whether it be major or minor league, professional or amateur or Little League, Pony League, Babe Ruth League or Amer ican Legion, is a contribution to the national pastime.
Naturally I welcome a book on the National League, particularly on a club which set such a high standard as the New York Giants. It is a personal pleasure for me, therefore, to contribute a foreword to Tom Meany's The Incredible Giants who did such agreat job in sweep ing the 195 4 World Series from the Cleveland Indians.
National League triumphs in World Series com petition have been hard come by in recent years. This was the first in my three years in Office. My predecessor, Commissioner Ford C. Frick, was president in 1946 when last the National League won.
It was not only a team Victory the Giants scored, it was a league victory, for New York was challenged from time to time during its great run to the pennant by both Brooklyn and Milwaukee, whereas Cleveland won 111 games in its own league to set an all-time record.
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