SABR Digital Library: Van Lingle Mungo: The Man, The Song, The Players
Van Lingle Mungo: The Man, The Song, The Players
Edited by Bill Nowlin
Associate Editors: James Forr and Len Levin
Publication Date: October 9, 2014
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-933599-76-2, $19.95
ISBN (ebook): 978-1-933599-77-9, $9.99
8.5″ x 11″, 314 pages
Just as 1930s and 1940s Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants pitcher Van Lingle Mungo was surprised that Dave Frishberg wrote a song around his name back in 1969, so he might have been surprised to come across this SABR Digital Library book in the twenty-first century. Frishberg’s song “Van Lingle Mungo” listed 37 ballplayers in the lyrics. A different version contained three different names. That’s a total of 40, and all 40 are represented with biographies in this book.
Dave Frishberg himself was a member of SABR from 1984 until his death in 2021. This book, largely comprised of biographies of all the players mentioned in the song, is the product of the hard work and dedication of 31 other SABR members. Click here to read Dave Frishberg’s introduction about how he came to write the song.
SABR is the Society for American Baseball Research, a group of enthusiasts about the game of baseball whose research interests range from the game’s history to statistical analysis, records, cultural impact, and more. The BioProject is a SABR effort to research, write, and publish biographies of every player — and every person — ever connected with organized baseball. Anyone with a love of baseball can join SABR and become a part of these efforts.
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- E-book: Click here to purchase the e-book version of Van Lingle Mungo for $6.99 from the SABR Store. Available in PDF, MOBI, and EPUB/Kindle formats.
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Contributors: Mark Armour, Lawrence Baldassaro, Ralph Berger, Alan Cohen, Warren Corbett, Rob Edelman, Dave Eskenazi, David Fleitz, James Forr, Jerry Grillo, Eric Hanauer, Mark Hodermarsky, Joanne Hulbert, Bill Johnson, James W. Johnson, Greg King, Norm King, Tara Krieger, Len Levin, Bill Nowlin, Armand Peterson, C. Paul Rogers III, Steve Rudman, Jim Sargent, Rick Swaine, Jim Sweetman, Stew Thornley, Joseph Wancho, Charlie Weatherby, and Gregory H. Wolf.