A haul of Hall books: Ray Dandridge to Buck Ewing

February 17, 2011

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)

Ed Delahanty (1945)

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:

Older titles for DiMaggio include:

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)

Hugh Duffy (1945)

Leo Durocher (1994)

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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