* Happy birthday, John McGraw

April 7, 2008

Born this date in 1873. Talk about “old school.”

The Amazon Report on John McGraw:

My Thirty Years in Baseball, by John McGraw and Charles Alexander

Casey and Mr. McGraw, by Joe Durso

How to play baseball, by John McGraw

Science of baseball, by John McGraw

The Old Ball Game: How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball, by Frank Deford. A limited preview is available here.

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