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Author | : Rich Marazzi |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 457 |
Release | : 2015-06-08 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1476604290 |
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The playing and post-playing careers of all 1,560 players who appeared in a major league box score between 1950 and 1959--the "golden age," many say--are profiled in this exhaustive work. From Aaron to Zuverink: this treasure-trove of anecdotes, many gathered from personal interviews, is full of historical facts, controversy, and trivia. Readers will be reminded, that Milwaukee Braves pitcher Humberto Robinson was asked by a gambler to fix a game against the Phillies (he refused), Joe Adcock chased Giants pitcher Ruben Gomez around the field with a bat, Bob Turley reached the top of the corporate ladder after his playing days, Casey Wise became an orthodontist, Bobby Brown became a heart surgeon and president of the AL, and that Chuck Conners became an actor. All of this and much more can be found here.
Author | : Fay Vincent |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2009-04-07 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1416553436 |
Download We Would Have Played for Nothing Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Presents the events of baseball in the 1950s and 1960s from the perspectives of the players, covering such subjects as the careers of Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, and Duke Snider.
Author | : Gene Fehler |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0786493089 |
Download When Baseball Was Still King Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Baseball in the 1950s comes to life through the words of 92 players from the fifties. In their conversations with author Gene Fehler, they tell, in more than a thousand stories and comments, of memorable moments, their dealings with umpires and managers, injuries and trades that affected their careers, regrets and joys that still remain with them so many years later. Players spoken to include Hall of Famers, All Stars, journeymen, and a few who were in the big leagues for the proverbial cup of coffee. Regardless of stature, they all have wonderful stories to tell about big league life in the 1950s, high and low, and moments with other players.
Author | : Larry Moffi |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2013-01-18 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0486146111 |
Download This Side of Cooperstown Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Enshrinement in the Hall of Fame is the ultimate honor for major leaguers. This rousing oral history recounts stories of 17 players who came up just short: Virgil Trucks, Gene Woodling, Carl Erskine, and others.
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Publisher | : Potomac Books, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Baseball |
ISBN | : 1597973653 |
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Baseball "by The Book."
Author | : Roger Kahn |
Publisher | : Aurum |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2013-08-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1781312079 |
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This is a book about young men who learned to play baseball during the 1930s and 1940s, and then went on to play for one of the most exciting major-league ball clubs ever fielded, the team that broke the colour barrier with Jackie Robinson. It is a book by and about a sportswriter who grew up near Ebbets Field, and who had the good fortune in the 1950s to cover the Dodgers for the Herald Tribune. This is a book about what happened to Jackie, Carl Erskine, Pee Wee Reese, and the others when their glory days were behind them. In short, it is a book fathers and sons and about the making of modern America. 'At a point in life when one is through with boyhood, but has not yet discovered how to be a man, it was my fortune to travel with the most marvelously appealing of teams.' Sentimental because it holds such promise, and bittersweet because that promise is past, the first sentence of this masterpiece of sporting literature, first published in the early '70s, sets its tone. The team is the mid-20th-century Brooklyn Dodgers, the team of Robinson and Snyder and Hodges and Reese, a team of great triumph and historical import composed of men whose fragile lives were filled with dignity and pathos. Roger Kahn, who covered that team for the New York Herald Tribune, makes understandable humans of his heroes as he chronicles the dreams and exploits of their young lives, beautifully intertwining them with his own, then recounts how so many of those sweet dreams curdled as the body of these once shining stars grew rusty with age and battered by experience.
Author | : Randy Roberts |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2018-03-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0465094430 |
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The story of Mickey Mantle's magnificent 1956 season Mickey Mantle was the ideal batter for the atomic age, capable of hitting a baseball harder and farther than any other player in history. He was also the perfect idol for postwar America, a wholesome hero from the heartland. In A Season in the Sun, acclaimed historians Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith recount the defining moment of Mantle's legendary career: 1956, when he overcame a host of injuries and critics to become the most celebrated athlete of his time. Taking us from the action on the diamond to Mantle's off-the-field exploits, Roberts and Smith depict Mantle not as an ideal role model or a bitter alcoholic, but a complex man whose faults were smoothed over by sportswriters eager to keep the truth about sports heroes at bay. An incisive portrait of an American icon, A Season in the Sun is an essential work for baseball fans and anyone interested in the 1950s.
Author | : R.A.R. Edwards |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2020-08-07 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 147667017X |
Download Deaf Players in Major League Baseball Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The first deaf baseball player joined the pro ranks in 1883. By 1901, four played in the major leagues, most notably outfielder William "Dummy" Hoy and pitcher Luther "Dummy" Taylor. Along the way, deaf players developed a distinctive approach, bringing visual acuity and sign language to the sport. They crossed paths with other pioneers, including Moses Fleetwood Walker and Jackie Robinson. This book recounts their great moments in the game, from the first all-deaf barnstorming team to the only meeting of a deaf batter and a deaf pitcher in a major league game. The true story--often dismissed as legend--of Hoy, together with umpire "Silk" O'Loughlin, bringing hand signals to baseball is told.
Author | : David Fischer |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2019-04-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1493038931 |
Download The New York Yankees of the 1950s Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The 1950s marked a transformative period in postwar American history. In baseball, one dynasty was the story during the decade. The New York Yankees played in eight World Series from 1950 to 1959, winning six of them. Yankees icon Joe DiMaggio retired following the 1951 season, but a new super star, Mickey Mantle, took over in Yankee Stadium’s center field in 1952. Mantle, the powerful switch-hitter who blasted tape-measure home runs, often tortured by leg ailments, was the number one box office draw in baseball. He was the American League’s most valuable player in 1956 and 1957, putting together a triple crown season in 1956. Mantle came into baseball when TV was just beginning to stir, and with the Yankees reaching the World Series and appearing on national TV seemingly every season, he became the face of the game during the decade. Mantle joined with his pals, pitcher Whitey Ford and infielder Billy Martin, to form a hard-partying trio that would be a joy and a pain to management. The author of several books on the Yankees, David Fischer will bring expertise and a knack for great story-telling to the saga of the most dominant decade in the annals of sport, set during a defining moment in U.S. history.
Author | : Bill James |
Publisher | : STATS Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Baseball |
ISBN | : 9781931584036 |
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