Baseball Players of the 1950s: A Biographical Dictionary of All 1,560 Major Leaguers. This item is unavailable.Baseball Players of the 1950s: A Biographical Dictionary of All 1,560 Major Leaguers

The playing and post-playing careers of all 1,560 players who appeared in a major league box score between 1950 and 1959 - the "golden age," many say - are profiled in this exhaustive work. From Aaron to Zuverink: this treasure-trove of anecdotes, many gathered from personal interviews by the authors, are full of historical facts, controversy, and trivia. For example, readers will learn, or be reminded, that Humberto Robinson, a Milwaukee Braves pitcher, was approached by a gambler and asked to fix a game against the Phillies, that Joe Adcock chased Giants' pitcher Ruben Gomez with a bat around the field, Bob Turley reached the top of the corporate ladder after his playing days, Casey Wise became an orthodontist, Bobby Brown became a heart surgeon and president of the AL, and that Chuck Conners became an actor. All of this and much more can be found here.

"Amusing anecdotes...you love the game, you gotta have it" -- Booklist/RBB "Booklist/RBB"

"Entries are strong on narratives, stories, and anecdotes. -- Arba "Arba"

"Entries are strong on narratives, stories, a -- Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society "Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society"

"amusing anecdotes...you love the game, you gotta have it"--Booklist; "entries are strong on narratives, stories, and anecdotes...very well done, covers a large number of names not found elsewhere, and is recommended"--ARBA; "difficult to put it down...very fascinating"--Philadelphia Athletics Historical Society; "treasure trove of 50's nostalgia"--Boston Braves Historical Association Newsletter; "plenty of original stuff...Marazzi interviewed hundreds of players...baseball junkies can get lost for hours in the anecdotes"--Sunday Squibs; "historic and entertaining"--Valley Times; "a glorious read"--New Haven Register; "baseball junkies can get lost for hours in the anecdotes"--Connecticut Post; "readers will enjoy the many photographs that show our heroes from the Golden Age of Baseball now in their golden years"--Sports Collectors Digest; "a glorious read...it's much more of an anecdotal, whimsical look at all 1,560 players of the 1950s than it is a statistical reference"--New Haven Register; "a who's who of 1950s baseball"--Seattle Times; "one of the more incredible books out there"--New York Post; "It is one of the finest books I've ever read"--Bob Wolff, Broadcaster; "Breezy, funny, and entertaining...it is 450 delightful pages of fun for anyone who ever put a bubble gum card of a ballplayer in his school notebook or stared at his radio when Bobby Thomson hit the 'Shot heard 'Round the World'"--Writer Maury Allen. "Baseball Players of the 1950s brings back many memories for me inasmuch as I covered that entire decade at the start of my career"--Writer Jack Lang.