My Great Great Grandfather Deserves His Own T206

[Zach Wheat]

Originally Posted by Charlie Faust III

.....Faust disappeared from public notice for fifty years, until Lawrence Ritter interviewed Fred Snodgrass, the centerfielder on the 1911-12 Giants. In The Glory of Their Times, Snodgrass recounted the Faust story, though he got many of his "facts" wrong, most notably stating that Faust stayed with the Giants for three years and did not appear in vaudeville until that third season......

Actually when you hear Fred Snodgrass tell the Faust story in his own words - and he was a great story teller - he tells it with such passion and emotion 55+ years later, you can almost see the events unfold in front of you.

I bought the Audible edition of this book ie original interviews used to construct the book. Hearing the old base ball players tell their stories in their own words really brought this era to life. You get a better feel for their personality - particularly when guys like Rube Marquard recount how he hitchhiked for days to make his baseball debut & being adopted by the "firemen"; or Davey Jones tell about getting his first pair of spikes - or even TY Cobb's team mates tell various anecdotes.

Not meaning to digress - but Snodgrass' story of C Faust was one of the best in the original audio tape.

Ok, fess up - who was the perpatrator of this prank?? Well done & quite imaginative.

Z