Kid Gleason: A Baseball Life Beyond the Black Sox

Though he's remembered today primarily as the ill-fated skipper of the Black Sox, William "Kid" Gleason proved successful in just about every role he played over a long major league career. He got his start as a workhorse pitcher, logging more than 1,700 innings over four seasons with Philadelphia and St. Louis. Gleason then made the switch to full-time middle infielder, contributing with his bat to the Baltimore Orioles' back-to-back pennant-winning teams of the mid-1890s before moving on ...