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Willie Keeler

Coming down the pike: A league of their own

January 15, 2015

There are so many books coming from three publishers, I thought to give them a page of their own. McFarland gets high marks for taking on subjects and people that might otherwise go under the radar. That’s not to say that every book is fantastic, all due respects to the writers, but at least they […]

Tagged as: baseball primer, Los Angeles Dodgers, Sandy Koufax, Willie Keeler

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Literary birthday greetings: Wee Willie and Monte

March 3, 2011

Celebrating a couple of 19th-century Hall of Famers today. Wee Willie Keeler was born this date in 1872. He was a prominent member of John McGraw’s first group of rowdies as described by Burt Solomon in Where They Ain’t: The Fabled Life and Untimely Death of the Original Baltimore Orioles, the Team That Gave Birth […]

Tagged as: John Montgomery Ward, Wee Willie Keeler, Willie Keeler

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