Gordon H. Fleming

These books used selections from newspapers of the time to create a day-by-day record of particularly interesting seasons in baseball history.

He graduated in English Literature from Berkeley, studied law for a year, and then joined the US Navy on America's entry into World War II.

[2] Fleming published several scholarly books about Victorian art and literature, such as Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1967), That ne'er shall meet again: Rossetti, Millais, Hunt (1971), The Young Whistler, 1834-66 (1978), Lady Colin Campbell: Victorian "sex goddess" (1989), James Abbott McNeill Whistler: A Life (1991).

The book recounts the melodramatic National League season of 1908, which included Fred Merkle's infamous "bonehead play" and the resulting playoff between the Chicago Cubs and the New York Giants.

In 1985 Fleming published Murderers' Row, a book covering the 1927 season of the New York Yankees, a ball club generally considered one of the greatest ever.