Description
Indiana boasts a wealthy baseball tradition, with 10 native sons enshrined in Cooperstown. This biographical dictionary provides a close take a look at the lives of all 364 Hoosier big leaguers, who include New York City’s first baseball superstar; the first rookie pitcher to win three games in a World Series; the man who caught most of Cy Young’s record 511 career wins; probably the most game’s first star relievers; the player who held the record for consecutive games played before Lou Gehrig; an difficult to understand infielder mentioned in Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip; baseball’s just one-legged pitcher; Indiana’s first Mr. Basketball, who became one in all baseball’s greatest pinch-hitters; the first African American to play for the Cincinnati Reds; the one pitcher to throw an excellent game within the World Series; the skipper of the 1969 “Miracle Mets”; the pitcher for whom a ground-breaking surgical procedure is called; and the one two men to have played in both the World Series and the Final Four of the NCAA Basketball Tournament.