New Baseball Book Hometown Heroes Explores Major League Players who spent their careers on one team

Hometown Heroes is a tribute to the 177 MLB players who spent their career with one major league franchise for at least ten years. Clay Sigg’s new book explores how the single franchise star epitomizes the best traits of a professional ballplayer. Almost to a man, these players are self-effacing, team-oriented men of high character, great teammates and outstanding influences in the clubhouse. The qualities of athletic skill, good character, integrity, perseverance and good luck appear so frequently in these ballplayers, it is no surprise they have captured the imagination of their hometown fans.

There are currently 50 members of this remarkable group, which have been enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. As of 2015, there are 215 National Baseball Hall of Fame inductees, not including the 35 Negro League stars denied the opportunity to play Major League Baseball during the first half of the 20th century.  One-team lifetime ballplayers represent over one-fifth of the baseball immortals in Cooperstown.

Current Washington Nationals’ manager Dusty Baker wrote the introduction to the book, and says “the hallmark of this group is their shared history as outstanding ambassadors of the game. Besides being popular with their hometown fans, they have been great teammates and high-impact, high class, first-rate ballplayers and people. Clay Sigg’s tribute to these influential players is a read that also touches on most of the history of Major League Baseball in the 20th century.”

You will read about famous star’s like Ernie Banks, Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio who are beloved treasures in their cities, and you will also be surprised at lesser-known names who made contributed to their franchises’ success year after year.

Hometown Heroes is a lavishly illustrated coffee table book that will provide hours of enjoyment for baseball fans. The cover features artwork by renowned sports artist Bill Purdom of the single-team stars in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. They are depicted in uniform as they appeared during the top of their careers.

About the book:

Hardcover: 391 pages

$59.95 

Publisher: NEWTYPE

Available on line at Hometownbaseballheroes.com

About the Author

Clay Sigg is a national pastime historian. A member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) and the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA), he is a ballpark aficionado, having viewed games in all 30 current major league ballparks and 11 past major league stadiums. Sigg is a member of the University of California at Davis Baseball Hall of Fame. He lives in Granite Bay, California with his wife Sandra.

About the Book

Hometown Heroes is a tribute to the 177 MLB players who spent their career with one major league franchise for at least ten years.