Bob Feller's Little Black Book of Baseball Wisdom

Bob Feller, Feller Bob, Rocks Burton. McGraw-Hill, $18.95 (160pp) ISBN 978-0-8092-9843-3

Find advice, history, answers galore in Bob Feller's Little Black Book of Baseball Wisdom, written with Burton Rocks (A King's Legacy: The Clyde King Story). Born in Iowa just after WWI, signed to the Cleveland Indians at age 16 and inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962, Feller now presents the accumulated lessons and memories from a life of hard work, great success and sincere enjoyment. With much attention devoted to other leading lights of the sport, this loving chronicle will please baseball fans of all ages. ( Mar.)

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