Baseball (16-Jan-1910 — 17-Jul-1974)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Lee Allen. Dizzy Dean: His Story in Baseball. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1967. 159pp.

Robert Gregory. Diz: The Story of Dizzy Dean and Baseball During the Great Depression. New York: Viking. 1992. 402pp.

Milton J. Shapiro. The Dizzy Dean Story. New York: Messner. 1963. 190pp.

Curt Smith. America's Dizzy Dean. St. Louis, MO: The Bethany Press. 1978. 190pp.

Vince Staten. Ol' Diz: A Biography of Dizzy Dean. New York: HarperCollins. 1992. 326pp.

PARALLELS

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Wikipedia [link]

5. Webster's American Biographies (p.263)

6. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.179)

7. American Lives: Sports (vol.1, pp.220-22)

8. ESPN Sports Almanac 2004 (p.518)

9. Sports Illustrated 2005 Almanac (p.862)

10. Legends in Their Own Time (p.63)

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