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Deadball Stars of the American League

At long last, the companion book to SABR’s Deadball Stars of the National League (2004) has arrived. The American League book, also published by Brassey’s and available on-line and in bookstores, looks at more than 140 AL stars from the start of the league in 1903 until the end of what is known as the Deadball Era, in 1919. The book includes more than 200 photographs and captures the National Pastime in the early 20th century.

Steve has contributed three of the biographies, of colorful and important baseball figures. They are:

St. Louis Browns’ owner Robert Hedges, the man who hired Branch Rickey
Second baseman Del Pratt, called “the greatest clubhouse lawyer baseball ever knew” by The New York Times
Pitcher Ray Caldwell, one of the most colorful and talented pitchers in the history of the game, whose drinking held him back from greatness

More in-depth versions of all three biographies can be found on-line at SABR’s BioProject web site, accessible to non-members at www.bioproj.sabr.org.