Full name: Veeck As in Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck

Authors: Blll Veeck, Ed Linn Year: 1962 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Sports, Baseball Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780226852188

Bill Veeck was an inspired team builder, a consummate showman, and one of the greatest baseball men ever involved in the game. His classic autobiography, written with the talented sportswriter Ed Linn, is an uproarious book packed with information about the history of baseball and tales of players and owners, including some of the most entertaining stories in all of sports literature. Similar books: The Wrong Stuff by Bill Lee Nice Guys Finish Last by Leo Durocher The Duke of Flatbush by Duke Snider My Turn at Bat by Ted Williams A False Spring by Pat Jordan Ball Four by Jim Bouton What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now? by Richard Ben Cramer Stengel by Robert W. Creamer The Game from Where I Stand by Doug Glanville A Well-Paid Slave by Brad Snyder Ty Cobb by Charles C. Alexander A Pitcher's Story by Roger Angell Mickey and Willie by Allen Barra The Umpire Strikes Back by Ron Luciano Sleeper Cars and Flannel Uniforms by Elden Auker Born to Run by Christopher McDougall Moneyball by Michael Lewis Five Lessons by Ben Hogan The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach Open by Andre Agassi