Lawrence Ritter
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Dr. Lawrence Stanley Ritter
- Born May 23, 1922 in New York, NY USA
- Died February 15, 2004 in New York, NY USA
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"The strongest thing that baseball has going for it today are its yesterdays." - Lawrence Ritter
Larry Ritter was a Professor of Finance at New York University, who was also a skilled author. His most famous work was The Glory of Their Times, where he published interviews of two dozen turn of the century ballplayers in 1966. The book has had several printings. Ritter collaborated with Donald Honig on two other books on baseball. In 1992, his book Lost Ballparks, a tribute to baseball stadiums of the past, was published. He also wrote dozens of articles on economics.
