Fred 'Dixie' Walker was a gifted ballplayer from a family of gifted athletes. He played in the majors for 18 seasons and in 1,905 games, assembling a career batting average of.306 while playing for the Yankees, White Sox, Tigers, and Dodgers. This book provides an account of Walker and fleshes out our understanding of him as a player and as a man.
A biography of Fred "Dixie" Walker, a gifted ballplayer who played in the majors for 18 seasons and in 1,905 games, assembling a career batting average of .306 while playing for the Yankees, White Sox, Tigers, Dodgers, and Pirates.