Not Hot Off The Press
The review was published three months ago, but it didn’t arrive at my door until, well, last Tuesday. So I’ll announce it as though it’s breaking news. Gail Huganir, managing editor of Central PA, made some very generous statements about Chief Bender’s Burden in the magazine’s July issue. “I’ll be the first to admit I don’t know much about baseball,” Huganir writes, “but Tom Swift sweeps readers — even those clueless about the game — up in this epic, eye-opening, turn-of-the-century tale. … Swift combines painstaking research with great storytelling to take us along on Bender’s remarkable journey.” Huganir continues: “This is a fascinating biography about an accomplished man, both on and off the baseball field, who struggled against mind-numbing prejudice and somehow still persevered.”
This post was added on Monday, October 13, 2008 by Tom Swift at 15:18 and is filed under Media Alert.
"Chief Bender's Burden" has won the 2009 Seymour Medal, which recognizes the best work of baseball history during the preceding calendar year. Thanks awards committee, Dorothy Seymour Mills, the Society for American Baseball Research, and readers!
