Eric Vickrey is a baseball writer who has published dozens of articles online and in print through the Society for American Baseball Research. He is the author of the forthcoming book Runnin’ Redbirds: The World Champion 1982 St. Louis Cardinals.
A long forgotten tragedy--the horrendous, fatal bus crash of a minor league baseball team in 1946. Eric Vickrey has done tremendous research and gives us this well-written, gripping tale in remarkable detail. It's a baseball story we all should know.--Marty Appel, New York Yankees historian and author of Pinstripe Empire, Munson, and Casey Stengel