Intro: As previously stated, the recent election of Robert Alomar and Bert Blyleven got me to thinking: how many Hall of Famers have had books written about them or penned their own stories. Here are the results. Again, this is not an all-inclusive list; almost all juvenile titles have been omitted.
Ray Dandridge (inducted 1987)
George Davis (1998)
There are no titles for George Davis.
Andre Dawson (2010)
Leon Day (1995)
Dizzy Dean (1953)
- Ol’ Diz: A Biography of Dizzy Dean
- Satch, Dizzy, and Rapid Robert: The Wild Saga of Interracial Baseball Before Jackie Robinson
- Dizzy Dean (Baseball Legends)
- Dizzy and the Gas House Gang: The 1934 St. Louis Cardinals and Depression-Era Baseball
- America’s Dizzy Dean
- Diz: The Story of Dizzy Dean & Baseball During the Great Depression
- Dizzy Dean; his story in baseball
- The Dizzy Dean Story
- Ol’ Diz: A Biography of Dizzy Dean.
Ed Delahanty (1945)
- Ed Delahanty in the Emerald Age of Baseball
- July 2, 1903: The Mysterious Death of Hall-Of-Famer Big Ed Delahanty
Bill Dickey (1954)
There are no titles for Bill Dickey.
Martin Dihigo (1977)
There are no titles for Martin Dihigo, but he’s a stapleof booksabout the Negro Leagues and included in at least two baseball novels, The End of Baseball: A Novel, by Peter Schiller, and All The Stars Came Out That Night
, by Kevin King.
Joe DiMaggio (1955)
With the 70th anniversary of his 5game hitting streak, there are several new books about The Yankee Clipper out this year, including:
- Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil (Icons of America)
, by Jerome Charyn (author of the novel The Seventh Babe
)
- 56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports
, by Kostya Kennedy
Older titles for DiMaggio include:
- Joe DiMaggio : The Hero’s Life
- Joe DiMaggio: Baseball’s Yankee Clipper
- Streak: Joe DiMaggio and the Summer of ’41
- Joe & Marilyn: A Memory of Love
- The Dimaggio Albums
- Dimaggio: Setting the Record Straight
- Becoming Joe DiMaggio
- Joe DiMaggio: An American Icon (Daily News Legends Series)
Larry Doby (1998)
Bobby Doerr (1986)
Barney Dreyfuss (Executive, 2008)
There are no titles for Barney Dreyfuss, although he is a staple in books about the Pirates.
Don Drysdale (1984)
- Once a Bum, Always a Dodger: My Life in Baseball from Brooklyn to Los Angeles
- The Don Drysdale Story
Hugh Duffy (1945)
Leo Durocher (1994)
- Nice Guys Finish Last
- The Lip: A Biography of Leo Durocher
- The Leo Durocher Story
- Durocher’s Cubs: The Greatest Team That Didn’t Win
Dennis Eckersley (2004)
There are no titles for Dennis Eckersley
Bill Evans (umpire, 1973)
There are no titles for Bill Evans
Johnny Evers (1946)
Buck Ewing (1939)
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