A New Book(s)
Coming this July!
COMING IN JULY: Volume 1 of The Infinite Baseball Card Set, a 124-page lavishly illustrated sampler of baseball’s forgotten heroes & stories.
The cast of characters and subjects range from well-known Hall of Famers to unknowns who should be known...
On one page, you’ll find the story of how Biz Mackey and a team of barnstorming Negro Leaguers helped spread baseball throughout Japan, and on the next, you can read about Smead Jolley and his comically poor fielding.
Within the pages of The Infinite Baseball Card Set, I’ll take you from baseball and fugitive shortstops in 1940 Shanghai and bring you the full story of the 1924 Jimmy O’Connell game-fixing scandal...
...and then take a side-trip to look at the bars and restaurants owned by former big leaguers.
Each article is beautifully illustrated with bold, colorful images, and the stories are told in an engaging, fast-paced style. Special features of the book range from a look at poet Jack Kerouac’s homemade baseball simulation game to instructions for keeping score during a game. This is 124 pages of pure baseball joy, lavishly illustrated and told in the true tradition of diamond lore.
While working on the this book, I had a hard time choosing who to pick and who to leave out, so there will also be a Volume 2 of The Infinite Baseball Card Set available at the same time as the first one.
The books are in their final production stage and should available to ship in mid-July. I will also have a table in the vendor room of the SABR convention in Cleveland on July 29 to August 2 where you can pick up a copy in person and talk some baseball history!
Pre-orders for Volume 1 are available HERE
Pre-orders for Volume 2 are available HERE