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The High Hard One
Published in Paperback by Univ of Nebraska Pr (1998)
Authors: Kirby Higbe and Martin Quigley
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Brutally Honest
You've got to hand it to a man who admits if he could do it all over again, he would still oppose Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier. And who uses his autobiography to mention he sold prescription drugs to inmates when he was a guard.
As offensive as his stances and actions are, you know you're not getting any pretenses with this guy. Higbe had only a seventh-grade education, so he had plenty of help from Martin Quigley in sounding eloquent, and Quigley does a good job there.
This isn' t a groundbreaking work, but it is a quick, enjoyable read.

It's all relative
It's interesting to read other people's reviews of this book. Kirby Higbe was my great uncle. I never met him- in fact, he was always referred to as crazy... but that just goes with being a Higbe, I think. I asked my dad for a copy of this book when I was younger, and he told me it would be impossible to find. Chances are, he just didn't want me to see any of the skeletons in the closet. It's odd seeing Uncle Kirby's face and seeing my dad, and uncle, and grandfather's features there. I think the book had a different meaning for me than it would for other readers. It was more a search for family history rather than learning more about baseball.

Hooray for this reprint
I read The High Hard One while I was in high school, and then again about 15 years ago, both times in library copies. Immediately after I read it the second time our local library purged it, and I have been looking for a copy ever since. This biography of Higbe stands out from all of the saccharine self-righteous hackneyed sports biographies to which we have been exposed. Higbe tells what it was like to be a working man and a baseball player. Higbe does not claim to have been a role model or a hero. He describes his life as he went from poverty to major league baseball to prison, and his skills, his gifts, and his personality flaws are all on display. He was not a nice man, but his life story sheds accurate light on the prejudices and beliefs of the people that fans turn into heroes. His willingness to look honestly at his life, even though that look was not complimentary, shows admirable courage.


Community College Movement in Perspective: Teachers College Responds to the Truman Commission
Published in Hardcover by Scarecrow Press (2003)
Authors: Martin Quigley and Thomas W. Bailey
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The Crooked Pitch
Published in Hardcover by Algonquin Books (1988)
Author: Martin Quigley
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The Crooked Pitch: An Account of the Curveball in American Baseball History
Published in Hardcover by Algonquin Books (1984)
Author: Martin Quigley
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Drifting With the River Gods
Published in Paperback by Collins Pr (2003)
Author: Martin Quigley
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First Century of Film
Published in Hardcover by Quigley Pub Co (1995)
Authors: Barry Monush, James Moser, and Martin Quigley
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Human in Vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer
Published in Hardcover by Plenum Pub Corp (1984)
Author: Don P. and Quigley, Martin M. Wolf
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Magic Shadows: The Story of the Origin of Motion Pictures.
Published in Hardcover by Biblo-Moser (1969)
Author: Martin, Quigley
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Mr. Blood's last night : end of an era in journalism : a reporter remembers Kansas City and the Times in the late thirties
Published in Unknown Binding by Sunrise Pub. Co. ()
Author: Martin Peter Quigley
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Original Colored House of David
Published in Hardcover by Houghton Mifflin Co (1987)
Author: Martin, Quigley
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