“Baseball in the Roaring Twenties“. Lets take a closer look at this book review.
This book is titled with the Roaring Twenties in it and it has some relevance to the early years but primarily deals with 1926 and the New York Yankees and the St Louis Cardinals who met in the world series He mentions the famous Babe Ruth “called shot” and the hard to get along with Rogers Hornsby of the Cardinals.
Another thing about Roaring twenties baseball is the allegations of game-fixing which involved to giants of the game in this era in Ty Cobbs and Tris Speaker, Author Thomas Wolf also adds baseball with inputs from gangsters, politicians and evangelists of the era. He also goes into the character of Grover Alexander and Tony Lazzeri.
This is one of the most fascinating books to be on the market in quite a long time. It is worth buying and reading for any baseball fan of any team in the major leagues. In 1926. The St Louis Cardinals won their first ever world series against a New York Yankees team that had the nation spellbound.
About the author
By Thomas Wolf
Thomas Wolf was born, raised, and educated in the Midwest. After graduation from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, and a two-year stint as a VISTA volunteer on Long Island, he earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is a two-time winner of the Doris Betts Fiction Prize.
Wolf is the co-author of two nonfiction books. Midnight Assassin: A Murder in America’s Heartland and The Plea: The True Story of Young Wesley Elkins and His Struggle for Redemption.
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