For all of the great, wonderful, and well-known stories about the World Series, there are just as many great, wonderful, and lesser-known stories from the Fall Classic, stories of which even diehard baseball fans are unaware. During the playoffs this season, I had the opportunity to read the new baseball book, “Shadows of Glory: Memorable and Offbeat World Series Stories” by Dave Brown and Jeff Rodimer with a foreword by former Major League first-baseman, Mark Teixeira.
The book details a number of those lesser-known stories from different World Series, including ones on the 1942 Kansas City Monarchs and 1985 Kansas City Royals.