New book? Where has this writer been? The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams came out in August and has been on the “Baseball Best-Sellers” list ever since. (Relatively new, I suppose.)
Congrats to the late Gerry Fraley, who won the BBWAA Career Excellence Award on Tuesday.
Ohio favorite son Joe Posnanski‘s Why We Love Baseball was included in this list of Cleveland-centric sports books on Cleveland.com. Also making the list in the baseball category was Ryan McGee’s Welcome to the Circus of Baseball, Mark Braff’s Sons of Baseball, Ben DiCola’s Mom’s Magnovox, Tim Hagerty’s Tales from the Dugout, and Lee Lowenfish’s Baseball’s Endangered Species.
Here’s something you don’t see every day: a story about a rare Babe Ruth baseball card from a collectible site based in England!
Via Digital Journal:
“A new book about Ty Cobb, the legendary baseball player and Georgia native, has been published by the Ty Cobb Museum in Royston, Georgia.
“The book, called What They Really Said About Ty Cobb, features more than 375 quotes from 256 people who knew Cobb or saw him play in his era. These include Hall of Famers, players, officials, umpires, sportswriters, and others. They offer their insights and opinions on Cobb’s skills, achievements, personality, and legacy. Unlike modern commentators, they had firsthand experience of watching or interacting with Cobb on and off the field. Some were his friends, teammates, managers, or admirers. Others were his rivals, critics, or reluctant fans. But all of them recognized his greatness and spoke about it publicly.”
is available on Amazon.com,
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