Bob Creamer has died

[Honus Wagner Rules]

Lengenary sportswriter Bob Creamer died yesterday!

http://www.jackmccallum.net/2012/07/19/bob-creamer-1922-2012-a-gentle-giant-of-journalism/#.UAhfXGE9BPh

Ironically, I just started reading this book. I bought it last month at a Portland bookstore for $5.95.


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[PVNICK]

R.I.P. That book is great as is his book on Stengel. Unles I am mistaken Creamer is the gold standard of baseball biographers.

[ol' aches and pains]

Agree on both books, Creamer was a great biographer.

[PlanetZoltan]

I remember Creamer from Ken Burns Baseball. He and Bob Costas were my favorites from that.

[SHOELESSJOE3]

Creamer, loved his works and his talking about the game in some interviews, so interesting.............................missed..

[ol' aches and pains]

This book, though less well-known than Creamer's biographies, is also an excellent read.

[Captain Cold Nose]

I have both the Stengel and Ruth books, waiting to be read. Damn.

RIP

[DiggerODell]

If you never read "Underworld" by Don DeLillo . . . read the 1st - 20 pages. I smiled the entire time . . . It's Oct. 3, 1951 . . . It's worth the price of admission of this one chapter. I haven't gone further yet, still reading . . . but it's worth it. R.I.P. Mr. Creamer . . . I won't soon forget you.