“Mascot Nation: The Controversy over Native Americn Representatives in Sports”
This book delves into the social issue of how sports mascots are viewed and how they are insensitive to some groups including the Native Americans.
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Baseball Commissioners – A.B. “Happy” Chandler – Part 2 of 6
Part One- – Judge Kenesaw Landis A.B. “Happy” Chandler After the first commissioner of baseball, Judge Kenesaw Landis died on November 25, 1944, a new one was needed. Leslie O’Connor was named as the interim commissioner until a permanent replacement could be named. Many felt the job would easily go to O’Connor. After all,…
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George Edward “Rube” Waddell – Eccentric and Strange Pitcher
There are many characters of the baseball world and Rube Waddell was certainly one of them. To add to his legacy, he was born on Friday the 13th and died on April Fools day It was all the stuff between there that made Waddell a character. At 6’1″ and almost 2oo lbs., he was a…
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“Doc, Donnie, The Kid, and Billy Brawl: How the 1985 Mets and Yankees Fought for New York’s Baseball Soul”
This is a book about the 1985 baseball season in the City of New York and how the fans of the Mets and Yankees fought for supremacy.
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Baseball History- How Cleveland Become the Indians
This story begins on October 24, 1871, with the birth of Louis Sockalexis. He was a member of the Penobscot Indian tribe in Maine. He grew to be six feet tall and had a muscular build in which he would use to become a spectacular athlete in his youth. He was the best athlete among…
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Best Baseball Books
UPDATE: All Book Reviews have been moved to our site, KnupSports HERE. It is my hope to read each of these books this year along with some new ones from 2018. I am fortunate enough to have two publishers that are sending me copies of books about to be released. I will add them…
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Let’s Play Two: The Life and Times of Ernie Banks
“Let’s Play Two: The Life and Times of Ernie Banks” By Doug Wilson This book covers a full gamut of the life of Ernie Banks. It is interesting to get a deeper understanding of his life in and around Dallas as a player and more importantly in a deeply racist city that reminds black people…
