Victory Faust: The Rube Who Saved McGraw's Giants

This book of historical nonfiction chronicles the bizarre adventures of Victory Faust and the 1911 New York Giants. Despite a lack of baseball skills, Faust joined the Giants, became their good-luck mascot, helped them win the pennant, and got his reward by pitching in two games. The book details the trials of John McGraw's vintage Giants that made them so susceptible to the positive influence of Faust, a Kansas farmer so determined to pitch the Giants to the pennant that nothing could stop him.