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Pie Traynor

Congratulations to Mark Stratton of Columbia, MO, winner of the February Facebook fan drawing of Pie Traynor: A Baseball Biography. The March prize will be Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game, by John Thorn, recently appointed as official baseball historian by Major League Baseball. Tell your friends!

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Congrats to Mark Armour, winner of the January “Facebook Friend” book, Pie Traynor: A Baseball Biography. Armour is a baseball writer in his own right, Armour is author of Joe Cronin: A Life in Baseball and Paths to Glory: How Great Baseball Teams Got That Way. The February book will be The Empire Strikes Out: […]

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Although not together. Pie Traynor was born this date in 1898. The Hall of Fame third baseman is the subject of a recent biography — Pie Traynor: A Baseball Biography, by James Forr and David Proctor. Born in 1891, Rabbit Maranville was one of those players whose inclusion in the Hall has been a source […]

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