* Speaking of heroes…

May 31, 2009

Owen Canfield, a former full-time columnist and sports editor of The Hartford Courant, focuses his now-monthly columnon books about ballplayers whose accomplishments go beyond the ball park.

The first is Ira Berkow’s The Corporal Was a Pitcher, the Courage of Lou Brissie. The second is a book on five CDs, Clemente, the Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero, by David Maraniss. Berkow and Maraniss are top-echelon writers and researchers.

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