Fouled Away: The Baseball Tragedy of Hack Wilson
by Clifton Blue Parker
Published by McFarland & Company, 2000. 232 Pages.

Any serious study of the life and times of Hack Wilson should begin with this preeminent biography of the man. Parker delves into his subject and pulls no punches in describing the highs and lows of Wilson's convoluted life. For a brief period of time, Hack ruled the baseball universe, but his star burned as quickly as it did brightly. Parker captures the greatness of the man on the field as well as the tragedy of the man off it. He argues that the world is forgetting Hack, but thanks to this engaging biography, it may not be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Hack — The Meteoric Life of One of Baseball's First Superstars: Hack Wilson
by Robert Boone and Gerald Grunska
Published by Highland Press, 1978. 149 Pages.

Boone and Grunska revived the legend of Hack in the first full length biography of the slugger, released forty-four years after Wilson's final major league at bat. For the first time, readers were introduced to the boy from Ellwood City, Pennsylvania. The book follows his rise out of the troubled childhood in the valley of that city to the top of the baseball mountain, and his precarious fall from it. "Hack" is a free-swinging look at the hard-swinging hero, and a seminal volume in the recorded history of Hack.

The Chicago Cubs
Warren Brown
Published by Southern Illinois University Press, 2001. 256 Pages.

One of the 15 team histories commissioned by G. P. Putnam's Sons in the 1940s and 1950, this book was originally published in 1946. It details the rise of the Chicago Cubs from the beginning of the National League in 1876 through the 1945 World Series in which the Cubs faced the Detroit Tigers. Wilson's teams of the late 1920's and early 1930's are examined in detail.