The Whistling Irishman: Danny Murtaugh Remembered
Impressive Biography. The Whistling Irishman is an excellent sports biography about the former Pittsburgh Pirates manager. A Pirate fan ... will find the book hard to put down, but any baseball fan would enjoy it.--The Post-Journal, Jamestown, NYBruce Markusen ...Danny Murtaugh remains one of the most underappreciated of all the great managers in baseball history. As terrifically as he performed in his leadership of Pirate players over the span of four different tenures, he gained even higher stature as a man of character. Colleen Hroncich does a wonderful job in portraying both sides of Danny Murtaugh--the baseball man and the dignified gentleman. In delivering the first in-depth biography of The Whistling Irishman, Hroncich provides more evidence of Murtaugh's deserving place in the Hall of Fame. If there's any justice in the baseball world, Murtaugh will eventually have a plaque in Cooperstown, located just a few hundred feet from this book's place in the Hall of Fame Library. --(Bruce Markusen, historian and author of eight baseball books) --interview