Magic Names of Baseball (Intimate Sketches of Famous Ballplayers) by Larry Woltz and Bill Cartan - 1932

Chicago: Metropolitan Publishers, 1932. Softcover. Very Good. Illustrated heavy stock softcovers with a photo portrait of Cap Anson. Very good, light edge wear and faint creasing, ownership signature top edge of title page. 32 pp. Illustrated with humorous drawings by Jo Metzer. Inside front cover is a memorial for Cubs owner William Wrigley, Jr. who died in January of 1932; the inside rear cover is a similar memorial for Charles Comiskey, 19th century palyer and the owner of the Chicago White Sox who has died in October, 1931. Biographical sketches of the top baseball stars of the first two and a half decades of the 20th century. Featured are: Rube Waddell, Nap Lajoie, Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, Tris Speaker, Johnny Evers, Joe Jackson, Ray Schalk, and Babe Ruth.