A haul of Hall books: Reggie Jackson to Bowie Kuhn

February 21, 2011 · 1 comment

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.

Reggie Jackson (Inducted 1993)

Travis Jackson (1982)
There are no titles for Travis Jackson, although he’s a staple of books about the NY Giants of the John McGraw era.

Fergie Jenkins (1991)

Hughie Jennings (1945)

Ban Johnson (Executive, 1937 )

Walter Johnson (1936)

Judy Johnson (Negro Leagues, 1975)

Addie Joss (1978)

Al Kaline (1980)

Tim Keefe (1964)
There are no titles for Keefe.

Wee Willie Keeler (1939)
There are no titles for Keeler, but his famous line, “Hit ’em where they ain’t” is a staple of books of quotations about baseball.

George Kell (1983)

Joe Kelley (1971)
There are no titles about Joe kelley.

George “High Pockets” Kelly (1973)
There are no titles on Kelly.

King Kelly (1945)

Harmon Killebrew (1984)

Ralph Kiner (1975)

Chuck Klein (1980)
There are no titles for Klein.

Bill Klem (Umpire, 1953)
There are no titles for Klem.

Sandy Koufax (1972)

Bowie Kuhn (Executive, 2008)

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1 Kent Morgan February 22, 2011 at 5:29 pm

Ron:
I just picked up a copy of Big League Dreams by Richard Brignall that is subtitled Baseball Hall of Fame’s first African-Canadian Fergie Jenkins at a book sale yesterday. It’s part of a young adult Recordbooks series about Canadian athletes. When it was published in 2010, there were 14 books in the series, but this was the only baseball one.

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