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Baseball Personalities

SHOCKER! DISCOVERING A SILENT HERO OF BASEBALL'S GOLDEN AGE weaves a dozen baseball people into the story, including Hall-of-Famers Brown first baseman George Sisler, Yankee manager Miller Huggins, and spitball pitchers Ed Walsh, Burleigh Grimes, and Stan Coveleski. The book captures their personalities and bonds of friendship, as well as their love of the game. It follows them from rising stars to veterans on the way down. Like Urban Shocker, most of these men were household names in the Teens or 1920's, but are merely dim memories now. Like Urban, they too have stories worth telling.

This website features articles from Baseball Magazine of that era about these characters.

 

Urban Shocker

Urban Shocker
(1890 - 1928)

Urban Shocker

 

While the forthcoming book includes many baseball figures, it puts special emphasis on these fascinating and significant baseball people, about whom so little has been written. These characters include:

 

Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth
(1895 - 1948)

Babe Ruth

 

Urban's Managers:

Wild Bill Donovan of the Yankees (1916-1917), Lee Fohl of the Browns (1920-1923), and Miller Huggins of the Yankees (1925-1928). The dates are the years they managed Urban, and not their total stint at the helm of these teams.

 

Wild Bill Donovan

Wild Bill Donovan
(1876 - 1923)

Lee Fohl

Lee Fohl
(1876 - 1965)

Miller Huggins

Miller Huggins
(1878 - 1929)

 

Urban's Teammates:

George Sisler of the Browns, and Mark Koenig and Bob Shawkey of the Yankees.

 

Mark Koenig

Mark Koenig
(1904 - 1993)

George Sisler

George Sisler
(1893 - 1973)

Bob Shawkey

Bob Shawkey
(1890 - 1980)

 

Urban's Fellow Spitball Pitchers:

Ray Caldwell, Stan Coveleski, Burleigh Grimes, John Picus Quinn, and Ed Walsh, Sr. While Ed's career wound down when Urban's was starting, he was still active as a coach and was respected as the greatest spitball pitcher who ever lived, the 'godfather' of the men who delivered the 'wet one' in the 1920's. This website features articles from Baseball Magazine of that era about these characters.

Ray Caldwell

Ray Caldwell
(1888 - 1967)

Burleigh Grimes

Burleigh Grimes
(1893 - 1985)

Stan Coveleski

Stan Coveleski
(1889 - 1984)

John Picus Quinn

John Picus Quinn
(1883 - 1946)

Ed Walsh

Ed Walsh
(1881 - 1959)

Others:

Rogers Hornsby

Rogers Hornsby
(1896 - 1963)

Milt Gaston

Milt Gaston
(1896 - 1996)

Dave Danforth

Dave Danforth
(1890 - 1970)

Helene Britton

Helene Britton
(1879 - 1950)

Helene Britton

Robert Lee Hedges
(1869 - 1931)

Phil Douglas

Phil Douglas
(1890 - 1952)

John McGraw

John McGraw
(1873 - 1934)

Jacob Rupperts

Jacob Ruppert
(1867 - 1939)

Del Pratt

Del Pratt
(1888 - 1977)

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