100: The 100 Year Journey of a Baseball Journeyman, Mike Sandlock
100: The 100 Year Journey of a Baseball Journeyman, Mike Sandlock
Edited by Karl Cicitto
Publication Date: April 5, 2016
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-943816-17-0, $14.95
ISBN (ebook): 978-1-943816-16-3, $9.99
8.5″ x 11″, 260 pages
In 2016, SABR’s Connecticut Smoky Joe Wood Chapter produced a book celebrating the life of Mike Sandlock, baseball’s oldest living former major-leaguer, 100: The 100 Year Journey of a Baseball Journeyman, Mike Sandlock, edited by Karl Cicitto.
Sandlock died at the age of 100 on April 4, 2016, just two weeks after chapter members presented him with a completed copy of the book. The book includes a biography of Sandlock — a switch-hitting catcher and infielder who spent parts of five seasons with the Boston Braves, Brooklyn Dodgers, and Pittsburgh Pirates — recaps and box scores of Sandlock’s 10 most memorable games, interviews with two dozen of Sandlock’s former teammates, a “scrapbook” of Sandlock’s career, and letters from MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred and Connecticut governor Dannel P. Malloy celebrating Sandlock’s 100th birthday in October 2015.
As Don Harrison wrote in Sandlock’s SABR biography, he “wasn’t a star at the major-league level, but he played with many who were.” He was a teammate of six Hall of Famers, including Warren Spahn and Ralph Kiner, and was managed by the legendary Casey Stengel and Leo Durocher. As a minor-leaguer in the Dodgers organization, Sandlock befriended many of Brooklyn’s fabled “Boys of Summer,” including Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, and Duke Snider, and he played a role in the development of fellow catcher Roy Campanella.
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