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Other books by David L. Fleitz:
Shoeless: The Life and Times of Joe Jackson (McFarland, 2001) tells the true story of the legendary character from Eight Men Out and Field of Dreams. Shoeless was selected as the first winner of the OSBY (Outstanding Sports Book of the Year) Award by the Hickory (NC) Sports Commission and the Hickory Public Library.
Louis Sockelexis: The First Cleveland Indian (McFarland, 2002) tells the interesting and tragic story of the first Native American in major league baseball, and the first minority player of any kind in the National League.
Ghosts in the Gallery at Cooperstown (McFarland, 2004) contains 16 biographies of little-known, but highly fascinating, members of the Hall of Fame.
Cap Anson: The Grand Old Man of Baseball (McFarland, 2005) is the first full-length biography of 19th century baseball's greatest player and manager in more than 100 years. Comments? Send e-mail to dfleitz99@wowway.com, but take the 99 out of the address before sending. Spam artists scour web pages like this one for e-mail addresses, and the 99 in the address makes it unusable for them.
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Another Sixteen Little-Known Greats at Cooperstown by David L. Fleitz An irony of enshrinement at the baseball Hall of Fame is that it’s no guarantee of lasting name recognition. The sport’s history stretches too far back, as today fans scratch their heads about athletes and owners who were among the most celebrated public figures of their time. Who was more renowned than George Wright, baseball’s greatest star during the transition from amateur to professional play? Who was more feared than Big Dan Brouthers? Maybe it was Amos Rusie, who threw so hard that some say the rules makers increased the pitching distance just to make things fair. If you've never heard these names, you are not alone. Many of the men in the Hall of Fame are in no way famous, and this book tells their stories. The player on the cover is the legendary Smokey Joe
Williams, a fastball-throwing Texan who most fans have never heard of, but
who may well have been the greatest pitcher of all time.
About the Book: More Ghosts in the Gallery, a follow-up to Ghosts in the Gallery at Cooperstown (2004), provides chapter-length biographies on 16 Hall of Famers from baseball’s distant past. Award–winning biographer David Fleitz covers in detail the lives and careers of Negro League (Hilton Smith) and pre–Negro League greats (Cristóbal Torriente and Smokey Joe Williams), big leaguers from the 19th century (Wright, Brouthers, Rusie, Mickey Welch, Tommy McCarthy, Tim Keefe, Joe Kelley, Billy Hamilton, and Sam Thompson) and stars from the Deadball Era through the Second World War (Jimmy Collins, Sam Rice, Kiki Cuyler, Arky Vaughan). For some, it is the first time their stories appear in print. The book is published by McFarland and Company of Jefferson, North Carolina, a recognized industry leader in works on baseball history.
"For all you Baseball fans especially on the history of the game, this is an excellent addition to the first book. If you have gone to the BB Hall of Fame or read the list of the inductees and wanted to know who some of those great past giants of the game were, this will fill in the gaps. ... There is a hint that a third book could be done." - William Bourne, amazon.com.
About the Author: David
Fleitz is a resident of David is also a baseball trivia expert, winning the annual competition at the national SABR convention in Seattle in 2006 and in St. Louis in 2007 after taking second place in Toronto in 2005. He has authored articles for SABR's Baseball Research Journal and The National Pastime, and his work appears in two recent compilations, Deadball Stars of the National League (Brassey's, 2005) and Deadball Stars of the American League (Potomac Books, 2007).
How to order: There are three ways to order More Ghosts in the Gallery.
or, call McFarland toll-free at 1-800-253-2187.
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