Baseball biography project addie joss king


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    wolterse

    12-12-2010, 08:06 AM

    One of the greatest benefits of our hobby is the amount of research and writing dedicated to the era and players we all collect.

    One of these examples is Scott Longert's Addie Joss biography published in 1998 by SABR.

    Addie Joss - King of the Pitchers

    Longert does a great job bringing Joss' youth and days as a ball player to life in his concise, 132-page account.

    The reader can expect about 30 pages of Addies youth and minor league ball playing days with teams like the Toledo Mud Hens. His dominance in these circuits foreshadowing his hall of fame career with the Bluebirds/Naps.

    Longert examines 'The Human Slat' (nick-named as such based