“Lefty O’Doul: Baseball’s Forgotten Ambassador” Book Discussion | SF Main Library

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In his new book Lefty O’Doul, Baseball’s Forgotten Ambassador, Dennis Snelling discusses how San Francisco Giants great Lefty O’Doul became the unofficial father of professional baseball in Japan. Although recruited as a pitcher, he became one of baseball’s best power hitters, retiring with baseball’s fourth highest lifetime batting average. Later he helped establish the professional game in Japan. A book sale by the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library follows the event. This program is co-sponsored by the Lefty O’Doul chapter for the Society for American Baseball Research.

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