Literary birthday greetings: Buddy

June 6, 2011 · 2 comments

Bud Harrelson, the Mets’ shortstop of my youth, turns 66 (!) today. He published How to Play Better Baseball, an instructional, in 1972 and is a staple of any book on Mets’ history.

Also born this date, Yankees Hall of Fame catcher Bill Dickey (1907). Amazingly, there is no stand-alone biography on Dickey, although he’s a fixture in any book about the Yankees, particularly the Murderer’s Row era. He also had a speaking role — playing himelf — in The Pride of the Yankees and The Stratton Story (although I can’t recall if that one was speaking or not).

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1 Dennis Anderson June 6, 2011 at 8:24 pm

My favorite part of this baseball card is Nolan Ryan walking behind the mound and calling the runner out.

2 Anonymous June 6, 2011 at 8:30 pm

Indeed, this was a revolutionary set for Topps.

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