Wasn’t expecting to have more to say about Vermont baseball following Tuesday’s post but…
We discovered a library on the Smugglers Notch premises, the type where guests “borrow” books and leave behind those they have finished while vacationing, rather than schlep them back home.
I had read the Winfield, Steinbrenner, and Long Gone books before. When I saw Boys of Summer, I immediately thought of the Roger Kahn classic, but it obviously was the wrong size and shape, so I passed by it. But on second thought, I took it off the shelf and lo and behold, the full title was Green Mountain Boys of Summer: Vermonters in the Major Leagues 1882-1993, edited by Tim Simon and published by New England Press in 2000.
I really got excited when I opened the book to find autographs, but there was actually another copy of the book which also had “signatures” so I realized these weren’t personally signed. Oh, well.
The most prominent names in Green Mountain, to me at least, are Carlton Fisk and Birdie Tebbets. An updated version would have to include Chris Duffy, a center fielder who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Milwaukee Brewers from 2005-07 and 2009, and third baseman Daric Barton, who spent his entire eight-season career (2007-14) with the Oakland Athletics.
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