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The Short, Happy Baseball Life of Charlie “Victory” Faust

Charlie Faust demonstrated that a Kansas farmer could help a baseball team, specifically the New York Giants, win a pennant. Baseball fans long forgot Faust’s story until it was recounted by former Giants center fielder Fred Snodgrass to author Lawrence Ritter for his classic 1966 book, The Glory of Their Times, about baseball in the early 1900s. Contemporary accounts, however, show that Snodgrass’s memory failed him. The true story is actually …
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Last Word on Sports broke the news in on Sunday, November 23, 2025.
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