This Side of Cooperstown (eBook)

Larry Moffi (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2013
288 Seiten
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-14611-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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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Enshrinement in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, is the ultimate honor for any major leaguer. This rousing, you-are-there history tells the story of seventeen legendary players who came up just short of Cooperstown: Virgil Trucks, Gene Woodling, Carl Erskine, Frank Thomas, and others. Collectively, the humorous, engaging, behind-the-scenes stories also tell the tale of baseball in the 1950s: a game performed on fields of grass and dirt, divided by segregation, played by men who took trains from city to city and held off-season jobs.The New York Times applauded this oral history as "e;great fun,"e; and sportscaster Mel Allen praised it as "e;a must-read for anyone who wants to know where today's game came from and what it can become once again."e; Former Commissioner of Baseball Fay Vincent noted that "e;Oral historians like Moffi do us the service of preserving what these men have to say about their baseball lives. These are players who gave me much enjoyment and so did this fine book. You will agree."e;

Autor

Larry Moffi is a widely published poet, author of The Conscience of the Game: Baseball's Commissioners from Landis to Selig, and co-author of Crossing the Line: Black Major Leaguers.

Inhalt

About the AuthorIntroduction to the Dover EditionsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionMarty MarionVirgil TrucksFrank ThomasGene WoodlingCarl ErskineDave PhilleyVic PowerDel CrandallMel ParnellAlex GrammasAndy CareyRoy SieversVern LawBob CervCal McLishMilt BollingTito FranconaPostcriptIndex of Names

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.1.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Dover Baseball
• Einführung: Paul Dickson
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 1950s • aa athletes • americas pastime • Anecdotes • Athletes • Baseball • Baseball in the 1950s • Baseball, Oral Histories • baseball players • Behind the Scenes • black athletes • black baseball • black leagues • Carl Erskine • Civil Rights • famous athletes • first person • frank thomas • Gene Woodling • glory days • Golden Age • Hall of Fame • history of baseball • inside look • Jim Crow • Major League Baseball • Moneyball • Oral History • Race • Segregation • social change • social issues • Sports • Sports History • virgil trucks
• ISBN-10: 0-486-14611-1 / 0486146111
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-14611-9 / 9780486146119