Description
This is a book about baseball in the Western Reserve, which is a region in northeast Ohio. The book has 20 articles, and each article is written by a different author. Some of the authors are leading SABR researchers and Cleveland sportswriters, and they all have a lot of knowledge about Cleveland baseball and the Indianseven League. One of the authors, Russell Schneider, wrote a moving piece about Gomer Hodge.
In
Batting Four Thousand: Baseball in the Western Reserve are twenty articles about people, events, and ideas from the four corners of that strange and wonderful thing we call Cleveland baseball, as editor Brad Sullivan calls it. The all-star roster of contributors includes leading SABR researchers and Cleveland sportswriters who share their deep knowledge of Clevelands professional teams, including the Buckeyes and Tate Wars, as well as of the storied Indianseven of Clevelands brief entry in the American Association. For the significance of the journals enigmatic title, see Russell Schneiders moving piece about Gomer Hodge.