Interview with Edd Roush
Interview
By: Edd Roush
Date: 1966
Source: Roush, Edd. Interview by Lawrence Ritter. In Ritter, Lawrence. The Glory of Their Times: The Story of the Early Days of Baseball Told by the Men Who Played It. New York: Vintage, 1985, 218–222.
About the Author: Edd Roush (1893–1988) was a Hall of Fame centerfielder who played major league baseball for eighteen years, primarily for the Cincinnati Reds (1916–1926, 1931) and New York Giants (1916, 1927–1929). He also played for the Chicago White Sox and for Indianapolis and Newark of the Federal League. He compiled a .323 batting average during his career and won the National League batting title twice for the Reds (.341 in 1917 and .321 in 1919). Roush was one of the biggest stars of the 1919 Reds World Series–winning team. He ended his career with 268 stolen bases and was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in...
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