The author and SABR member died Jan. 2 at age 52.
According to an obituary in the Boston Globe:
Mr. Thompson contributed nearly two dozen articles over the years to the organization’s research publications. In 2005, he published his first book, “The Ferrell Brothers of Baseball,” a biography of the Ferrell family of North Carolina, which sent nine members into professional baseball over a 60-year span in the 20th century. Two of the players, Wes and Rick Ferrell, excelled for the Red Sox in the 1930s.
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The Atlantic Monthly’s site has an interesting article from 1971 by Wes Ferrell (as told to Donald Honig) about his playing days:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/197105/baseball/
The Atlantic has just made its entire on-line collection available to all visitors and there’s a fair deal of baseball articles there. — RK
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