The Sizzler George Sisler, Baseball’s Forgotten Great

Prior to August 2001 I was not personally acquainted with George Sisler, Jr., the eldest son of old-time baseball player George Sisler. His name was quite familiar, however, frequently appearing in local newspapers during the 1980s when he was the general manager of the Clippers, the New York Yankees Triple-A affiliate in my hometown of Columbus, Ohio. As a lifelong baseball fan, whenever I heard the name I made the connection to his father, but I never seriously thought much about the elder Sisler’s baseball career or his place in baseball history. That was about to change....