Clifton Blue Parker: 3 books
Sweet ’60
The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Sweet ’60: The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates is the joint product of 44 authors and editors from the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) who have pooled their efforts to create a portrait of the 1960 team which pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the last 60 years. Game Seven of the 1960...
Fouled Away
The Baseball Tragedy of Hack Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
A hundred and ninety-one. Mention the number anywhere near a ballpark and before you can ask who or what, fans will almost certainly shape their lips with a single word: Wilson. They’ll tell you Hack Wilson, a burly, bull-necked outfielder who roamed Wrigley Field in the 1920s and 1930s, was the...
Big and Little Poison
Paul and Lloyd Waner, Baseball Brothers
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
The Waner brothers, Paul and Lloyd—also known as “Big Poison” and “Little Poison”—played together for fourteen seasons in the same Pittsburgh outfield in the 1920s and 1930s. More than half a century after retiring, they still rank as the best-hitting brothers in major league history with...