This day marks the birth of Rube Waddell (1876), a Hall-of-Fame hurler from the early part of the 20th century.
- Rube Waddell: The Zany, Brilliant Life of a Strikeout Artist, by Alan Howard Levy
- Just a Big Kid: The Life and Times of Rube Waddell, by Paul Proia
Another member of the Hall, slugger Eddie Mathews, was born this day in 1931.
- Eddie Mathews and the National Pastime, by Matthews and Bob Buege
- The Eddie Mathews Story, by Al Hirschberg
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