Hi, I’m Eric Vickrey

I'm Eric Vickrey, a published historical baseball author and contributor to the Society for American Baseball Research BioProject

I am a lifelong baseball fan with a passion for researching and writing about the history of the game. I started writing several years ago as a contributor to the Society for American Baseball Research BioProject. My first book, Runnin’ Redbirds: The World Champion 1982 St. Louis Cardinals, was published by McFarland in 2023. It chronicles the Cardinals from Herzog’s rebuild to the final out of the Fall Classic.

My second book, Season of Shattered Dreams: Postwar Baseball, the Spokane Indians, and a Tragic Bus Crash That Changed Everything, was published in April 2024 by Rowman and Littlefield. It looks at the postwar impact on baseball and the 1946 Spokane Indians bus crash.

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Season of Shattered Dreams

The fascinating true story of the 1946 Spokane Indians, postwar baseball, and the deadliest tragedy in the history of American professional sports.

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