N.Y.’s Old-Time Ball Park Hero: The Scourge of the Owners
A Clever Base-Ballist: The Life and Times of John Montgomery Ward , by Bryan Di Salvatore. Pantheon Books, 477 pages, $27.50.
John Montgomery Ward, one of New York’s first sporting superstars, played professional baseball from 1878 to 1894; the plaque in the Hall of Fame squeezes his career into the following telegram-style sentence: “Played important Read More
