Richard Bak
Author · 10 books
RICHARD BAK is a Detroit-based journalist and the author of twenty-five books, including 'Henry and Edsel: The Creation of the Ford Empire' and 'Peach: Ty Cobb in His Time and Ours.' He has received three ForeWord magazine Book-of-the-Year awards, the Stuart D. and Vernice M. Gross Prize for Literature, and two Emmys for his work as writer and coproducer of "Stranded at the Corner," a feature-length documentary about the fight to save Detroit's Tiger Stadium.
Series
Books
Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars
The Negro Leagues in Detroit, 1919-1933
1994
Boneyards
Detroit Under Ground
2010
Ty Cobb
His Tumultuous Life and Times
1994
A Distant Thunder
Michigan in the Civil War
2004
Peach
2005
Cobb Would Have Caught It
The Golden Age of Baseball in Detroit
1991
The CSS Hunley
The Greatest Undersea Adventure of the Civil War
1955
Detroit
1900-1930
1999
The Day Lincoln Was Shot
An Illustrated Chronicle
1998
Henry and Edsel
The Creation of the Ford Empire
2003
