The high privilege of knowing Fred
WHEN I WAS WRITING a book about Old Hoss Radbourn — the pitcher who won an astonishing 59 games in a single season, more than anyone in the history of major-league baseball — I knew there was one man I had to see.
Frederick Ivor-Campbell was probably the world’s foremost expert on Radbourn, who pitched for the Providence Grays of the National League in the 1880s. Mr. Ivor-Campbell, a leading figure in the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), had written about him (elegantly) for American Heritage magazine and other publications. And he lived in Bristol.
