Sports' Forgotten Heroes

Sports' Forgotten Heroes


60: Hal Trosky-MLB

July 09, 2019

Sometimes a career can be overlooked or a great career is forgotten. Hal Trosky is a prime example of both. A star first-baseman for the 1930s Cleveland Indians, he was one of baseball’s most feared sluggers. But he played in obscurity as Cleveland rarely finished out of the American League’s second division. A career .302 hitter, Trosky in the shadows of Gehrig, Foxx and Greenberg. On this episode of SFH, we discuss his career with author Bill Johnson who wrote the book, “Hal Trosky: A Baseball Biogr