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Been reading a few baseball books because I have been playing in a baseball Simulation league (Diamond Minds , Imagine Baseball).
I like reading sports books from time to to time.
1968 world series as told by the men who played.
, by Brendan Donley
The Big Fella, by Jane Leave.
About Babe Ruth and the world he created in promotion, marketing and
Ect. Centers around a Barnstoming event with Lou Gehrig. Excellent book.
Also found a older book at the use books store called
Pennant Races , by David Anderson. Excellent book about most of the
Great baseball races.
Reading a new book called
K
A history of Ten Pitches , by Tyler Kepner 2019 man he talked to alot of pitchers, I'm about halfway and on the chapter of
Knuckleballers and came across this story.
Page 104,105
Gene Bearden , a 22 year old minor leaguer who had bounced around 3 organizations, found himself aboard the USS Helena in the South Pacific's in July 1943. Bearden was in the engine room when a Japanese destroyer struck his ship with a torpedo. As Bearden climbed the ladder to escape, another torpedo strike sent him crashing to the floor, unconscious, with a mangled knee and a severe gash to his head.
"Somebody pulled me out, " Bearden would Tell the Cleveland plain Dealer. " They told me later it was a officer. I don't know how he did it. The ship went down in about 17 minutes. All I know is I came too in the water some time later."
About 200 men died in the attack, but Bearden was rescued by an American Destroyer after two days on a raft.
At the Navy hospital in Florida, he had a aluminum plate inserted in his head and an aluminum cap screw in his crushed kneecap. He took seven months to walk again and spent all of 1944 in the hospital.
He only lasted around 5 years in the big but had a fantastic rookie season in 1948 (20-7) and clinching the pennant in Boston. He won a game and saved game 6 in the 1948 world series. The last baseball title for Cleveland. He was a Knuckleballer.
Anyway great book
I like reading sports books from time to to time.
1968 world series as told by the men who played.
, by Brendan Donley
The Big Fella, by Jane Leave.
About Babe Ruth and the world he created in promotion, marketing and
Ect. Centers around a Barnstoming event with Lou Gehrig. Excellent book.
Also found a older book at the use books store called
Pennant Races , by David Anderson. Excellent book about most of the
Great baseball races.
Reading a new book called
K
A history of Ten Pitches , by Tyler Kepner 2019 man he talked to alot of pitchers, I'm about halfway and on the chapter of
Knuckleballers and came across this story.
Page 104,105
Gene Bearden , a 22 year old minor leaguer who had bounced around 3 organizations, found himself aboard the USS Helena in the South Pacific's in July 1943. Bearden was in the engine room when a Japanese destroyer struck his ship with a torpedo. As Bearden climbed the ladder to escape, another torpedo strike sent him crashing to the floor, unconscious, with a mangled knee and a severe gash to his head.
"Somebody pulled me out, " Bearden would Tell the Cleveland plain Dealer. " They told me later it was a officer. I don't know how he did it. The ship went down in about 17 minutes. All I know is I came too in the water some time later."
About 200 men died in the attack, but Bearden was rescued by an American Destroyer after two days on a raft.
At the Navy hospital in Florida, he had a aluminum plate inserted in his head and an aluminum cap screw in his crushed kneecap. He took seven months to walk again and spent all of 1944 in the hospital.
He only lasted around 5 years in the big but had a fantastic rookie season in 1948 (20-7) and clinching the pennant in Boston. He won a game and saved game 6 in the 1948 world series. The last baseball title for Cleveland. He was a Knuckleballer.
Anyway great book
