Moments in the Sun: Baseball's Briefly Famous

by Mark McGuire and Michael Sean Gormley

Baseball's ranks are filled with those whose careers may not have been as spectacular as Ruth or Mays but who played essential roles in the game's history, like footnotes in a great book. Some were well known in their day, featured on the front of the sports section; others were lesser lights whose feats and misdeeds were so notable they deserve to be remembered.

Bert Shepard pitched a game for the Washington Senators in 1945 despite being...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078640549X
• ISBN13: 9780786405497
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher