Baseball Players of the 1950s: A Biographical Dictionary of All 1,560 Major Leaguers

Baseball Players of the 1950s: A Biographical Dictionary of All 1,560 Major Leaguers by Marazzi, Richard. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780786412815.

The playing and post-playing careers of all 1,560 players who appeared in a major league box score between 1950 and 1959 are profiled in this exhaustive work, full of historical facts and anecdotes from personal interviews with the ballplayers. For example, readers will learn, or be reminded, that Humberto Robinson, a Milwaukee Braves pitcher, was approached by a gambler and asked to fix a game against the Phillies, that Joe Adcock chased Giants pitcher Ruben Gomez with a bat around the field, Bob Turley reached the top of the corporate ladder after his playing days, Casey Wise became an orthodontist, and Bobby Brown became a heart surgeon and presient of the AL.