Mark Gauvreau Judge

Being the story of the Washington Senators' only World Series championship, in 1924, as retold by the grandson of first baseman Joe Judge. This is a friendly book which makes minimal time demands, but very little of it is original; the several biographies of star pitcher Walter Johnson tell the same story, as does old-school sportswriter Shirley Povich's history of the team (admittedly hard-to-find and extremely expensive). Even the few snippets about Judge are not particularly informative--the author never knew his grandfather--and Judge is extremely, and annoyingly, error-prone: Rabbit Maranville was not a catcher, the White Sox catcher in the Hall of Fame is Ray Schalk, not Schacht, and if you never knew that Goose Goslin hit .394 in '24, it's because he didn't.… (meer)