Literary birthday greetings: Gil Hodges, the Golden Eagle, the Goat, and Superjew

April 4, 2011

Gil Hodges was born this date in 1924. While compiling my list of books about Hall of Famers, I couldn’t help but ask why some of these guys were in while someone like Hodges was out.

Tris Speaker, who is in the Hall of Fame, was born this date in 1888. Books about the Grey Eagle include Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend, by Timothy Gay (2006) and Spoke: A Biography of Tris Speaker, by Charles Alexander (2007).

Mickey Owen, one of the games great goats for his dropped third strike from Dodgers’ teammate Hugh Casey in the 1941 World Series game, was born this date in 1916. He published The Boys’ Baseball Book with Frank Farmer in 1963.

Also marking the occasion, Mike Epstein, who turns 68. He published an instructional, Mike Epstein on Hitting, in 2003.

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