Some Are Called Clowns: A Season with the Last of the Great Barnstorming Baseball Teams
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1974. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.5 x 8.5 in. xii, 354 pp. Illustrated with two suites of black & white reproductions of photographs, baseball flyers, etc. Very good in original cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, with what appears to be very light, but pervasive, tea-staining to fore-edge, and a very good pictorial dust jacket with a light scrape across front cover and some sunning to spine. Very good / Very good. Item #9392
ISBN: 0690004699
An amusing history of Heward's experience as a pitcher for the Indianapolis Clowns, as well as a biography of Ed Hamman, including his brief stint with the House of David baseball team. Itself an early record of barnstorming teams.
Price: $85.00