<p>When he stopped playing professional baseball in 1947, Rick Ferrell retired as the American League's longest playing catcher of all time. Yet even after 18 seasons and 8 All-Star game appearances, Ferrell went on to round out a sixty-six year career in professional baseball as a coach, manager, scout and front office executive with the Detroit Tigers. This biography includes highlights of Ferrell's career, confidential letters written as the Tigers' General Manager, 15 interviews with Ferrell's associates, as well as thirty-four photographs, some never before published.</p>

Rick Ferrell, Knuckleball Catcher: A Hall of Famer's Life Behind the Plate and in the Front Office

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Rick Ferrell, Knuckleball Catcher: A Hall of Famer's Life Behind the Plate and in the Front Office