Derrick Barnes

Listen to "Derrick Barnes Releases The Book Who Got Game" on Spreaker. Derrick Barnes delivers an engagingly written, packed with humor, illustrated sports book. WHO GOT GAME?: Baseball: Amazing True Stories! celebrates the unheralded, unrecognized, and forgotten (but no less remarkable!) people and stories that are integral to the history of the game. We all know major league legends like Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, and Jackie Robinson, but what about Roberto Clemente, the first Latinx Baseball player to have exactly 3,000 hits; Andrew “Rube” Foster, father of the National Negro League; or Jackie Mitchell, the seventeen-year-old girl who struck out heavy hitters Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth. Along with introducing these unsung greats, Barnes highlights iconic moments in baseball history like: · The agonizing thirty-three inning game at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1981 between the Pawtucket Red Sox and Rochester Red Wings that went on for eight hours and twenty-five minutes in weather so cold players-built fires with discarded baseball bats for heat. · The demise of the spitball in 1920 after Yankees pitcher Carl Mays’ slobbery pitch fatally wounded Cleveland Indians Ray Chapman with a ferocious hit to the head. · Willie Mays’s incredible over-the-shoulder running catch in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series.