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CATCHER: HOW THE MAN BEHIND THE PLATE BECAME AN AMERICAN FOLK HERO (due
out in the spring of 2009 from Ivan R. Dee, Inc.) My next book is now finished
and I'm anxiously awaiting its release in the
spring. It tells the history of the catcher
from the early days of baseball up until 1920, focusing on how he achieved the
status of folk hero in the tradition of frontiersmen and cowboys, only to lose
it in the 1880s and '90s when he donned equipment and became perceived as less
manly and courageous. It was a fascinating book to write and research and
I did my best to do justice to a very important story that has largely escaped
notice.
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