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. In 1947, after 18 major league seasons with the Browns, Senators, and Red Sox, Rick Ferrell retired as the longest playing catcher in the American League. His record 1,806 games would stand for more than 40 years, surpassed finally by another Hall of Famer, Carlton Fisk. A stout defender and choosy batter, Ferrell was an eight-time All-Star who caught a rotation of four knuckleball pitchers for the 1945 Washington Senators team that lost the American League pennant in the final week of the season. Perhaps that's one of the reasons he went on to work for the Detroit Tigers for 43 years, serving as coach, scout, and front-office executive. This biography includes highlights of Ferrell's career, letters written as Detroit's general manager, 15 interviews with Ferrell's friends and peers, as well as thirty-four photographs, some never before published. In 1947, after 18 major league seasons with the Browns, Senators, and Red Sox, Rick Ferrell retired as the longest playing catcher in the American League. His record 1,806 games would stand for more than 40 years, surpassed finally by another Hall of Famer, Carlton Fisk. A stout defender and choosy batter, Ferrell was an eight-time All-Star who caught a rotation of four knuckleball pitchers for the 1945 Washington Senators team that lost the American League pennant in the final week of the season. Perhaps that's one of the reasons he went on to work for the Detroit Tigers for 43 years, serving as coach, scout, and front-office executive. This biography includes highlights of Ferrell's career, letters written as Detroit's general manager, 15 interviews with Ferrell's friends and peers, as well as thirty-four photographs, some never before published. Kerrie Ferrell grew up in a family of professional baseball players. After realizing she would not become the first female big leaguer, she became an English professor. It has taken her six years to complete the research on this book. Baseball historian William M. Anderson has authored several baseball books and lives in Ludington, Michigan. Used Book in Good Condition