Robert Gregory

Diz was a very interesting book about an era in baseball that I really don't know that much about. Diz was a heck of a character, who I think would be slayed in today's media. He led a very interesting life and if you enjoy baseball and real life characters this is a great book, especially if you don't know much about baseball's early years. This book makes me want to read up more about the Cardinals Gas House Gang years, and maybe one day, when I get through all the books I still have in my queue, I eventually will.… (mais)

5080. Diz Dizzy Dean and Baseball During the Great Depression, by Robert Gregory (read 29 Oct 2013) It being October, i thought I should read a book on baseball and this 1992 biography of Dizzy Dean I found to be just the answer to my baseball interest. I came to be a fervent baseball fan in 1938, and many of the players talked about in the years before 1938 were still playing in 1938 and thus I thought I knew them. And of course Dizzy Dean became a Cub in 1938--to my great delight, though of course as it turned out he was not worth the $185,000 and three players which the Cubs paid for him. But Wrigley knew that might turn out to be true and one can admire Wrigley for his daring. Dizzy was of course often obnoxious when he was a Cardinal--but the Cardinal management was not admirable either. The book tells the exciting story of those amazing baseball years very well, and I always thrill to read again the story of Gabby Hartnett's home run against he Pirates in September 1938--the greatest day in baseball so far as I personally am concerned. There is so much interesting baseball history in this book that I found it a joy to read, even if there were sad events related--as is inevitable in baseball books.… (mais)