"He was built like a beer keg, and not entirely unfamiliar with its contents." So goes one sports scribe's description of Lewis Robert "Hack" Wilson. Blue collar to the core, Hack rose up from the troubled beginnings of absentee parents and a steeltown environment to become one of baseball's brightest stars of the Roaring Twenties. His 1930 season stands as one of the greatest ever by a batsman. Yet in the blink of an eye, and the bottom of a bottle, it was all over. Hack Wilson lived hard and died young. But before he shuffled off this mortal coil, Hack gave baseball fans everywhere plenty of memories that deserve to be preserved. That is the goal of this website.

HackWilson.com has recently been acquired by baseball historian, sports memorabilia collector and loyal Cubs fan Brad Wackerlin, creator of www.CapAnson.com, www.MarkGrace.com, www.CollectingZim.com and other baseball websites. A full launch of this site is scheduled for the beginning of the 2010 baseball season, coinciding with the 80th anniversary of Hack's historic 1930 campaign. Select pages will be posted as they become available.

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