SubscribeW2W4: Mort Zachter’s bio of Gil Hodges
It took me awhile to discern that “W2W4,” a staple of ESPN The Magazine, is “text-speak” for “what to watch for.” There. Now you know, too.
So this W2W4 regards Mort Zachter’s forthcoming biography, Gil Hodges: The Man Behind the Miracle, to be will be published by the University of Nebraska Press. Hodges, the powerful Brooklyn Dodgers first baseman who later led the New York Mets to their first World Championship, was a favorite of Zachter as a boy growing up in New York. He was passed over — again — in the latest vote by the Veterans Committee for the Baseball Hall of Fame.
You might remember Zachter from Dough, his memoir about learning that, impoverished appearances to the contrary, his family was loaded. Ironically, the success of that book has delayed the Hodges project, which had originally been slated for a 2009 release but now looks more like 2010, according to an e-mail from Zachter.
But here’s a preview from his website, MortZachter.com in which he writes about the difficulties of visiting Hodges’ home town of Petersburg, Ind., on a research quest: “I wondered how the locals would take to a Jew mining for facts about their favorite son, a devout Catholic.”
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