Whose biography would you like to read?

[KenBoyerCollector]

I love reading about baseball, it's history, and its players. Just finished the Moe Berg book and thought about other baseball players’ biographies I would love to read.

I'm just curious... who are some of the pre-war and post-war players you would love to read about?


Andy

[DaClyde]

In no particular order, I'd love to read more about (nothing less than 400 pages, preferably):

Masanori Murakami
Don Newcombe
Randy Bass
Rube Foster
Luis Aparicio
Martin Dihigo

[DaClyde]

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[rhettyeakley]

Rube Waddell would probably be a great read! I have also always been a bit fascinated with the early Native American players like Louis Sockalexis, Chief Bender, Chief Meyers, etc. I know there have been a few Sockalexis books over the past 10-15 years but I don't recall seeing a Bender or Meyers biolgraphy.

[Cy2009]

Rhett,

This is a great book about Rube Waddell:

http://www.amazon.com/Rube-Waddell-B...6549747&sr=1-1

It is a great story and extremely well written. I know the author. He told me the story wrote itself. But he did a great job on the book. It is one of my favorite Dead Ball era biographies.

Let me give two more that are great stories and extremely well written:

Tris Speaker:
http://www.amazon.com/Tris-Speaker-R...6549882&sr=1-1

Hal Chase:
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Prince-B...6549924&sr=1-2

Cy

[KenBoyerCollector]

Nice, I may have to check those out

[oldjudge]

Fischer-Chicago Maroons. Only Old Judge player that we have been unable to find much about

[deebro041]

Roger Bresnahan
Dan Brouthers
Joe Kelley
Ban Johnson

[Big Six]

Originally Posted by Cy2009

Rhett,

This is a great book about Rube Waddell:

http://www.amazon.com/Rube-Waddell-B...6549747&sr=1-1

It is a great story and extremely well written. I know the author. He told me the story wrote itself. But he did a great job on the book. It is one of my favorite Dead Ball era biographies.

Let me give two more that are great stories and extremely well written:

Tris Speaker:
http://www.amazon.com/Tris-Speaker-R...6549882&sr=1-1

Hal Chase:
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Prince-B...6549924&sr=1-2

Cy

I second the recommendation on the Chase book...really well done.

[asoriano]

Arthur "Bugs" Raymond

[cwazzy]

The Moe Berg book was awesome! Cobb by Al Stump was great as well. I'm currently reading the new one on Roy Campanella.

I would like to read more on Germany Schaefer, Bresnahan, Dizzy Dean, Zack Wheat, Speaker, and Branch Rickey (to name a few).

[daves_resale_shop]

Eddie Cicotte, Pumpsie Green, Harry Hooper

[iwantitiwinit]

Three Finger Brown.

[Bosox Blair]

Originally Posted by rhettyeakley

Rube Waddell would probably be a great read! I have also always been a bit fascinated with the early Native American players like Louis Sockalexis, Chief Bender, Chief Meyers, etc. I know there have been a few Sockalexis books over the past 10-15 years but I don't recall seeing a Bender or Meyers biolgraphy.

Hi Rhett,

I recommend these two books to you:

http://www.amazon.com/Just-Big-Kid-T.../ref=pd_sim_b1

and

http://www.amazon.com/Chief-Benders-.../ref=pd_sim_b6

Both very strong books!

Cheers,
Blair

[ChiefBenderForever]

Originally Posted by Bosox Blair

Hi Rhett,

I recommend these two books to you:

http://www.amazon.com/Just-Big-Kid-T.../ref=pd_sim_b1

and

http://www.amazon.com/Chief-Benders-.../ref=pd_sim_b6

Both very strong books!

Cheers,
Blair

Chief Benders burden is amazing, I've read it twice and probably will again. The Moe Berg 'The catcher was a spy' was amazing. To think he just jumped in as a catcher and his first game doing so was against Ruth, Gehrig ect is mind blowing. It was also a very very depressing story when you read his life after WWII, he really became a lost vagabond living a charade with nothing but his name.

[90feetaway]

Charlie Comiskey - besides his role as cheapskate owner, my understanding is he did help contribute positively to the game and Jim Abbott - a good pitcher nevermind any disability.

[Jcfowler6]

Dave Draveky.

[U240robert]

Originally Posted by KenBoyerCollector

I love reading about baseball, it's history, and its players. Just finished the Moe Berg book and thought about other baseball players’ biographies I would love to read.

I'm just curious... who are some of the pre-war and post-war players you would love to read about?


Andy

I used to visit my dad in New York when I was a young kid, from Florida, and during the summer I hung out at the library reading sports books.
Moe Bergs was one of the first one I read, loved it.
My dad bought me 'Eight Men Out' and that's still one of my favorites.
I tend to go with the vintage baseball books that took place around the turn of the 20 century.

Oddly, I'm a diehard Red Sox fan but my dad got me 'The Bronx Zoo' when it came out and I loved. I became a huge Sparky Lyle fan.

These days, I'd like to read a book about 1960's baseball- a well done book about the whole decade, not just Mays/Mantle stuff that's been done to death.

[slidekellyslide]

I'm about a third of the way in on "The Big Bam"..I've read Robert Creamer's Babe Ruth bio and just picked this one up at a garage sale the other day for a quarter. Pretty good so far.

[Jcfowler6]

What's the story behind Stump?

[ChiefBenderForever]

Originally Posted by Jcfowler6

What's the story behind Stump?

He embellished some things, possibly many things. He also sold many items over the years that he claimed were from Cobb/Cobbs estate and was proven to not be true so many of the quotes and stories in his book could be fabricated and sadly many most likely are.

edited to ad a link-

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/7...players-legacy

[Jcfowler6]

edited to ad a link-

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/7...players-legacy[/QUOTE]

Interesting article. So most of what I have heard about Ty Cobb is untrue?

He wasn't a racest? he wasn't disliked by other players?

Is there a book I could read that would be more factual about Ty?

[Tabe]

Oh, he was disliked by his fellow players. Most likely a racist. Almost surely did some terrible things in his lifetime. But he also wasn't the completely evil POS that Stump painted him as.

Much like the recent "The Big Bam" did for Babe Ruth scholarship, Ty Cobb could use a new, authoritative biography. Much of what has been written about Cobb in the last 50 years used Cobb's autobiography (written with Stump) and Stump's second Cobb book as sources. Neither is credible. An all-new book is called for.

Tabe