Looking for T206 era Book Recommendations

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Posted By: Chuck

After 50 pages of Crazy '08 I'm taking it back to the library and buying it....excellent so far!!

I have bios of Cobb (2), Keeler and Chase in my collection plus the Glory of Their Times.

How's the Walter Johnson bio that came out in the last 5-10 years?

Any good ones of John McGraw?

Do any outbiographies from that era stand out?

TIA,

Chuck
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Posted By: Scot Reader

Chuck,

I enjoyed Frank Deford's "The Old Ball Game How John McGraw, Christy Mathewson, and the New York Giants Created Modern Baseball" (2005)

Scot

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Posted By: Ray Piskadlo

Three Finger: The Mordecai Brown Story by Thomson and Brown is my favorite biography! It's less than a year old (August 2006) and very well written!

I haven't read Crazy '08, but I really liked More Than Merkle by Anderson. It's also about the 1908 season. Keith Olbermann wrote the intro.

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Posted By: John S

Charles C. Alexander, who may the author of one your Cobb bios, wrote an excellent bio on McGraw.

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Posted By: Ed

I hope I am furthering the thread, but does anyone know of Snodgrass and/or Merkle biographies?

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Posted By: Rich Klein

Compiled a great book on the 1908 season; which was a series of newspaper accounts of the season as it went; Terrific reading

Rich

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Posted By: John H.

The Johnson bio, written by Henry Thomas, is excellent.

I struggled with Dennis DeValeria's book on Honus Wagner. Too many game stories and not enough in-depth personal information.

I'm currently reading Timothy Gay's Tris Speaker bio. I'm on page 80-something and it's pretty good but he seems to spend a lot of time writing about baseball people other than Speaker himself.

John

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Posted By: sean

I posted the same thing awhile back and someone recommended to me SABR's deadball starts of the national and american league. ITS FRIGGING AWESOME and is the only book to rival the glory of their times. It has 2-3 page bios on over300 deadball players with AUTOGRAPHS!!!!!
Also get:

-More than Merkle
-Hal Chase: the dark prince of baseball
-tinker, evers, & chance by gil bogen
-any of the fred lieb team books (you can get them at your local library, if they dont have it, thye can order it from any library in your state! awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

1. The Glory of Their Times, Ritter.

2. Collier's Book Of Baseball, Patten & McSpadden, 1911.

3. The Unforgettable Season, Fleming.

4. Deadball Stars, SABR.

5. July 2, 1903 The Mysterious Death of Hall-Of-Famer Big Ed Delahanty, Sowell.

6. McGraw, Alexander.

7. Matty: An American Hero - Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants, Robinson.

8. Walter Johnson, Thomas.



These would be a really good start...

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Posted By: Max Weder

The Speed Boy, by Frank Hart. This book is a little off-beat from the non-fiction titles, as it is fiction written in 1938. However, it covers the dead ball era, and gives you a great sense of the players and the era.



And probably my favorite all time purchase was when I bought the original drawings used in the book. I have to take a better photo of them, but here's a shot of 5 of the 8 drawings used in the book

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Posted By: DMcD

When my wife and I were in Vancouver a few months ago Max graciously invited us up to his office to have a look at some of the Weder Collection. "Stunning" is a word that has been run into the ground by eBay sellers et al but it's the right word with regard to the Speed Boy pictures. My eyeballs went Boing!! (Max has plenty other interesting stuff but he won't let you stay all day gawking on account of he has to make a living. Next time I will book an appointment at lawyers' rates if that's what it takes.) BTW Max, is Speed Boy difficult to find if edition/condition were not a concern?

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Posted By: Max Weder

I just received an email noting that University of Nebraska press is having a spring baseball book sale until May 31. http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/special/baseballSaleMay07.jsp>




There are many titles dealing with pre-war subjects

Max