Customer Review: Fascinating history of early 20th century baseball. There is a subtext of how baseball attitudes, indeed the attitudes of American society in general modified, if not particularly liberalised, over the course of the first half of that century. These changing attitudes are mirrored in Speaker's own... more info
Customer Review: Baseball biographies of deadball era players are all the rage now. I was really excited to see that Mr. Alexander had written about one of the true early greats- Tris Speaker- as I was a big fan of his Cobb and McGraw biographies. I was a little disappointed though with this bio, for some of the... more info