Remembering Larry Ritter

Oh, the days of the Kerry dancing
Oh, the ring of the piper’s tune
Oh, for one of those hours of gladness
Gone, alas, like our youth, too soon…
                             &nbs

Oh, the days of the Kerry dancing
Oh, the ring of the piper’s tune
Oh, for one of those hours of gladness
Gone, alas, like our youth, too soon…
                                 –from the Kerry Dance (Irish Folk Song)

Those words of the Kerry Dance open the baseball classic, The Glory of their Times by Larry Ritter and seem fitting now that one of the great baseball historians has passed away.

Celebrated author and longtime SABR member Lawrence S. Ritter died February 15 at his New York City apartment following a series of strokes.