Description
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 notoriously 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’s also be a Volume 2 of The Infinite Baseball Card Set now available.
Volume 2 can be purchased HERE
