Frederick G Lieb

Hall of Fame writer Frederick G. Lieb wrote seven of the team histories for the Putnam Series. He was perhaps one of the most revered baseball writers in the first half of the twentieth century and in 1973 became one of the first living baseball writers elected to the writers' wing of the Hall of Fame. Stan Baumgartner was a former baseball player with the Phillies and Athletics. After his baseball career, he became a sportswriter for the Philadelphia Inquirer. William C. Kashatus holds a...See more

Hall of Fame writer Frederick G. Lieb wrote seven of the team histories for the Putnam Series. He was perhaps one of the most revered baseball writers in the first half of the twentieth century and in 1973 became one of the first living baseball writers elected to the writers' wing of the Hall of Fame. Stan Baumgartner was a former baseball player with the Phillies and Athletics. After his baseball career, he became a sportswriter for the Philadelphia Inquirer. William C. Kashatus holds a doctorate in history from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of ten books on Philadelphia baseball, including September Swoon: Richie Allen, the '64 Phillies and Racial Integration and Almost a Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the 1980 Phillies. See less