Background
Thomas William Meany was born on September 21, 1903, in Brooklyn, New York.
(This is the second book by Tom Meany on baseball's greats...)
This is the second book by Tom Meany on baseball's greats, contains living stories of our greatest hitters. It's a must for every baseball fan's library.
https://www.amazon.com/Baseballs-greatest-hitters-Tom-Meany/dp/B0006ASCCC/?tag=2022091-20
1950
(Tom Meany, called by many "Baseball's Boswell," spent mos...)
Tom Meany, called by many "Baseball's Boswell," spent most of career covering the Brooklyn Dodgers, ultimately becoming the publicist for the Mets.
https://www.amazon.com/Milwaukees-Miracle-Braves-Tom-Meany/dp/B000HA3JN8/?tag=2022091-20
1956
(The first of a new series of profiles on the personnel of...)
The first of a new series of profiles on the personnel of various major league clubs. Here's the inside story of Casey Stengel, the so-called clown manager who won three World Series in his first three seasons in the American League.
https://www.amazon.com/magnificent-Yankees-Tom-Meany/dp/B0006AT190/?tag=2022091-20
1957
(Here is the story of the men in the front office and on t...)
Here is the story of the men in the front office and on the fieldwho shaped the Yankee tradition.Text is clean and mark free. Binding is tight. Dustjacket is now mylar protected.
https://www.amazon.com/Yankee-story-Tom-Meany/dp/B0006AWE9Y/?tag=2022091-20
1960
(Baseball player, manager & coach Harry Walker nterviews g...)
Baseball player, manager & coach Harry Walker nterviews great hitters and presents their theories, along with his own, on how to be a successful baseball hitter.
https://www.amazon.com/How-Bat-Harry-Walker/dp/B002QAOUFS/?tag=2022091-20
1963
Thomas William Meany was born on September 21, 1903, in Brooklyn, New York.
Tom studied at St. John's Prep in Brooklyn where he wrote for the school newspaper and played basketball and baseball.
Tom Meany’s first writing job was as a sports reporter covering the high school teams of his native borough for the New York Journal. His work for this paper was a success, reprinted in other newspapers and leading to a full time job in a year’s time covering the Brooklyn Dodger games for the Brooklyn Daily Times. Next, Meany took a job at the New York Telegram covering the Giants. By this time, he was earning a reputation in the city as a sports reporter and had his first coup when he broke a story about the Giant’s new manager, Bill Terry, 1932.
Meany’s first book, published in 1947, was a biography of this baseball hero entitled Babe Ruth: The Big Moments of the Big Fellow. Meany also wrote a series of books about the baseball “greats.” His first volume of this kind was Baseball’s Greatest Teams, published in 1949. In it he assimilated stories he had been told about teams by older sports writers who had witnessed them, like the 1909 Pirates who were featured in this book in an essay called “The Flying Dutchman.” His other books of essays on the “greats” include Baseball’s Greatest Hitters (1950), Baseball’s Greatest Pitchers (1951), and Baseball’s Greatest Players (1953).
While writing these books in the 1950s, Meany also took a job as sports editor for Collier’s. Concentrating on articles about baseball, these pieces, along with some of his earlier freelance work from the Saturday Evening Post and Sport, were collected in Mostly Baseball: A Twenty-Year Collection of the Best Magazine Articles of a Nationally Known Sportswriter, published in 1958. In the 1950s Meany co-authored The Magnificent Yankees, The Artful Dodgers, Milwaukee’s Miracle Braves, and The Boston Red Sox.
In 1958, the Yankees hired Meany to do promotions for their team. During his time with the ball club, he wrote a follow-up book about the history of the team. The Yankee Story, published in 1960, tries to account for the team’s success from the 1920s through the time of the book’s writing. In exploring this question, Meany profiles a number of personalities who helped make the Yankees great, including players, management, and officials.
In 1961, he joined the New York Mets baseball team as a publicity director, and later served as their promotions director. While with the Mets Tom developed the mascot Mr. Met. Mr. Met was the first baseball mascot and has many fans today.
(Baseball player, manager & coach Harry Walker nterviews g...)
1963(Tom Meany, called by many "Baseball's Boswell," spent mos...)
1956(This is the second book by Tom Meany on baseball's greats...)
1950(Here is the story of the men in the front office and on t...)
1960(The first of a new series of profiles on the personnel of...)
1957Tom Meany’s writing style was unique and appealing, often sounding more like descriptive fiction than sports writing.
Meany used the life and death of Ebbets Field as a metaphor for the changes he had experienced in sports during his lifetime. In the early years, he reported on Notre Dame and Army football games there as well as Dodger games (he was even an official scorer at this field when he was in his twenties). But its demolition in 1960 roughly coincided with the end of his own career. During his day, he met, wrote about, and promoted some of the game’s best and most colorful players.
Quotations: “It wasn’t the quality of the writing that got the piece past the doorman, it was the subject matter.”
Quotes from others about the person
“Meany was at his best writing these short pieces about ancient teams or old players.” - Richard Orodenker
On December 26, 1932, Meany married Clara M. Maxwell. They didn't have any children.