The Greatest Pitching Duels of the Century

March 10, 2011 by Gabriel Schechter · 4 Comments

Sticking to my policy of reviewing only books I can highly recommend, I bring you a gem by Jim Kaplan, long-time “Sports Illustrated” writer and author of a dozen previous baseball books, including a fine biography of Lefty Grove. His new volume, titled The Greatest Game Ever Pitched: Juan Marichal, Warren Spahn, and the Pitching […]

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Aubrey Stewart: African-American Pitcher Killed in WWII

March 8, 2011 by Gary Bedingfield · 4 Comments

Aubrey Stewart was a semi-pro pitcher with the Piedmont Colored Giants who volunteered for military service in 1942 and became a victim of a WWII atrocity.

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