“How can you not be romantic about baseball?” – Brad Pitt as Oakland A’s General Manager Billy Beane from the movie “Moneyball.”
This site is dedicated to the stories that didn’t make the cut in Baseball in Evansville and Black Ball in Evansville, the books, due to space limitations and other factors.
The stories are no less romantic than those that made the cut. Enjoy.
Kevin Wirthwein
Kevin Wirthwein is the author of Baseball in Evansville: Booms, Busts and One Global Disaster and Black Ball in Evansville: Diamonds in the Shadows 1900-1960s. The Evansville native attended Harrison High School and studied Journalism at Butler University in Indianapolis where he wrote and edited for The Butler Collegian newspaper and The Drift yearbook. After graduation, Kevin was a sportswriter and sports editor for The Brownsburg Guide newspaper in Brownsburg, Indiana. There, he won a Hoosier State Press Association Award for his weekly sports column. Kevin was a staff writer for Trap & Field Magazine and served briefly as editor of the Zionsville Times in Zionsville, Indiana, before returning to Butler to earn an MBA degree and enter the business world. He is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research, the Vanderburgh County Historical Society and Indiana Historical Society.
Get in touch
Contact Kevin by sending an email to kevin@baseballinevansville.com.
Interviews:
Interview with Kevin Wirthwein 
Former Evansville native publishes new book about Negro league baseball players
Baseball fan turned author unearths Evansville’s Negro League history. June 19, 2024
Black Ball in Evansville – News4U April 2024 – page40
In-depth with Brad Byrd: History of baseball in Evansville, 2020
Two Main Street- Kevin Wirthwein, April 30, 2020
Gameday IQ: Hear from Kevin Wirthwein about his new book, “Baseball in Evansville: Booms, Busts, and One Global Disaster”,
Society for American Baseball Research: Author pens Evansville baseball history book
WIRTHWEIN CHRONICLES CENTURY OF ‘BASEBALL IN EVANSVILLE’ IN NEW BOOK