Day with the Giants.
"Every ball game is an opening night, and with every winner there is a loser": First edition of Laraine Day's Day with the Giants; signed by her and illustrator Leo Durocher
Day with the Giants.
DAY, Laraine [Leo Durocher].
$250.00
Item Number: 123480
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952.
First edition of Day’s account of her experiences as “The First Lady of Baseball”. Octavo, original cloth, with drawings by Leo Hershfield. Signed by Lairaine Day and Leo Durocher on the third free endpaper. Very good in a good dust jacket. Jacket design by Sydney Butchkes. Jacket photograph by Editta Sherman.
In addition to her numerous film and television roles, American actress Laraine Day acted on stage, conducted her own radio and television shows, and wrote two books. Her second marriage to New York Giants manager Leo Durocher and her involvement with his baseball career inspired the present novel which relays the drama, humor, and heartbreak of "being a baseball wife".
