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2 unusual facts about John Rosengren


John Rosengren

His six include Blades of Glory: The True Story of a Young Team Bred to Win, which chronicles a season spent with a successful Minnesota high school hockey team; Hammerin' Hank, George Almighty and the Say Hey Kid: The Year that Changed Baseball Forever, an account of the 1973 baseball season; and ghost-wrote Esera Tuaolo's aubiography Alone in the Trenches: My Life as a Gay Man in the NFL.

Sam Bohne

Bohne was Jewish, but according to author John Rosengren, the Cincinnati Reds persuaded him to change his name to Bohne because its front office ' "brain trust" didn't believe the city's largely German population would welcome a player named Cohen.



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