Playing a little catch-up here:
Aug. 30
- Hideo Nomo, 42: Nomo: The Tornado Who Took America by Storm
, by Edmon Rodman
- Frank Robinson, 75: Robinson has published a couple of his own titles, including My Life Is Baseball
(1975), Frank: The First Year
(1976), and Extra Innings
(1988). Other titles about Robinson include Russ Schneider’s Frank Robinson: The Making of a Manager
and Frank Robinson, Born Leader
, by Al Hirshberg. As with many African-American superstars, there are a number of books aimed at kids.
- Nomo: The Tornado Who Took America by Storm
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- Robinson: Extra Innings
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- Williams: A Baseball Life
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- Williams: The Biography of an American Hero
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- McGraw: Ya Gotta Believe
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- McGraw: Scroogie
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- O'Rourke: The Life of a Baseball Radical
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- Spalding: A.G. Spalding and the Rise of Baseball
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Aug. 31
- Ted Williams (1918) has numerous titles devoted to his life on and off the field, including Leigh Montiville’s excellent Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero
. Other good choices include two coffee-table editions by Bill Nowlin: Ted Williams at War
and Ted Williams: The Pursuit of Perfection
(there are other Nowlin books on the Boston slugger as well). Then there’s Ted Williams: A Baseball Life
by Micheal Seidel; What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now? : A Remembrance
by Richard Ben Cramer; by John Underwood (who also worked with Williams on his classic instructional Science of Hitting
); Hitter: The Life and Turmoils of Ted Williams
by Edward Linn; and Ted Williams Reader
by Lawrence Baldassaro, just to name a few. Several of these were published following Williams’ death in 2002.
- Tug McGraw (1944) was the author of the 1974 autobio Screwball
(with Joseph Durso) and Ya Gotta Believe: My Roller-Coaster Life As a Screwball Pitcher and Part-Time Father, and My Hope-Filled Fight Against Brain Cancer
, released shortly before his death in 2004. He also published Scroogie
, a “comic book” in 1976.
Sept. 1
- Olde-Tyme Hall of Famer Jim “Orator” O’Rourke (1850): Orator O’Rourke: The Life of a Baseball Radical
and From FarField to Newfield: The Baseball Dream of Orator Jim O’Rourke.
Sept. 2
- Olde-Tyme ballplayer, owner, and innovator(and Hall of Famer) Albert Spalding (1850): A. G. Spalding and the Rise of Baseball: The Promise of American Sport
, by Peter Levine and Spalding’s own America’s National Game
, first published in 1911.
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