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This biography of Tris Speaker is the first to tell the full story of Speaker’s turbulent life and to document in sharp detail the grit and glory of his pivotal role in baseball’s dead-ball era.

A book every modern journalist-and citizen-should read."-Tom Brokaw, Author of The Greatest GenerationIn February 1943, a group of journalists-including a young wire service correspondent named Walter Cronkite and cub reporter Andy Rooney-clamored to fly along on a bombing raid over Nazi Germany. Seven of the sixty-four bombers that attacked a U-boat base that day never made it back to England. A fellow survivor, Homer Bigart of the New York H...

Historian Gay unearths long-forgotten exhibitions where Satchel Paige, Dizzy Dean, and Bob Feller dueled, and he tells the story of their pioneering escapades in this engaging book. These often obscure contests helped hasten the end of Jim Crow baseball, paving the way for the game's integration.

In the tradition of incredible true stories from The Great Escape to Argo, Savage Will recounts a tale of survival, daring, and evasion behind enemy lines: that of American medics and nurses stranded for two months in Nazi-occupied Albania. In 1943, men and women of the 807th Medical Air Evacuation Squadron boarded a routine flight from Sicily to the Italian mainland to care for wounded soldiers. En route, their plane drifted hundreds of miles...

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Their work on the front lines made headlines.

Based on new research, this is the story of how Satchel Paige, Dizzy Dean, Bob Feller, and barnstorming introduced integrated baseball to America.