This book is part of a book series called History's All-Stars .

This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.

There are 208 pages in this book. This book was published 2015 by Aladdin Paperbacks .

Guernsey Van Riper, Jr. attended DePauw University in 1926. He earned two varsity letters as quarterback on the football team and one letter as a first baseman on the baseball team. After graduating, he worked in advertising then became an editor at Bobbs-Merrill Publishing Company. He turned his love of sports into books, writing biographies of Lou Gehrig and Knute Rockne along with ten other children's books.