The 1922 St. Louis Browns

Roger A. Godin currently serves as team curator for the NHL’s Minnesota Wild after having served two tours as director of the United States Hockey Hall of Fame. While American hockey is the principal focus of his research, he has written a number of monographs for Society for American Baseball Research publications. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Table of Contents



Introduction     



1. Spring Training: Alabamy Bound     

2. April: Kenny Williams Took a Bat and Gave a Baseball Three Long Whacks     

3. May: Welcome Back Babe     

4. June: Troubles with Mays and Haney     

5. July: “I Never Doctored the Ball”     

6. August: Reinforcement from Boston     

7. September: “I Benched Davis...to Get Rid of Smith”     

8. Aftermath: Last Days and Last Hurrahs     



Appendix A: Batting, Pitching, and Fielding Statistics     

Appendix B: Dave Danforth Statement, St. Louis Post-Dispatch     

Appendix C: The “Little World Series” Games     

Bibliography     

Index