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What: “More Tales from Baseball’s Golden Age”

Author: Gene Fehler

Publisher: Sports Publishing Inc.

Web site: www.sportspublishinginc.com

Price: $19.95

Brooklyn Dodger outfielder Cal Abrams was thrown out at home plate in the ninth inning of a game that would have forced a playoff for the 1950 National League pennant.

Now, Abrams, who played for five major league teams from 1949-56, can thank Gene Fehler for a chance to explain that infamous play. Fehler, a poetry teacher from South Carolina who wrote “Tales from Baseball’s Golden Age” in 2000, returns with “More Tales from Baseball’s Golden Age.” The 241-page hardcover book is a collection of intriguing and wacky plays of the 1940s and ‘50s.

Abrams, describing the play that led to the Philadelphia Phillies winning the 1950 NL pennant, says, “Milton Stock, the [Dodger] third-base coach, was waving his arms and yelling, ‘Go, go, go.’ Then at the last moment ... he had his hand up to his mouth and his other arm up and I thought, ‘What kind of a sign is that?’ ”

Scattered throughout the books are anecdotes and recollections from a time before airplane travel.

Some 50 Hall of Famers are interviewed in Fehler’s new book, with nearly two dozen players included who were not in his first.