Piazza (eBook)

Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star

Greg W. Prince (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
280 Seiten
Sports Publishing (Verlag)
9781683580089 (ISBN)

Infos

A franchise and fan base in perpetual search of validation finally had its ticket punched as 2016 dawned. Mike Piazza, who held records in one hand and a citys rapt attention in the other, gained election to the Hall of Fame. Within weeks of this long-awaited announcement, the ballclub with whom he chose to cast his eternal lot, the New York Mets, made a date to retire his number.In Piazza: Catcher, Slugger, Icon, Star, Greg W. Princecocreator of Faith and Fear in Flushing, the blog for Mets fans who like to read, and author of Amazin Again, the story of the 2015 National League championsexplores the parallel paths Piazza and the Mets set out on in the early 1990s and how their individual journeys merged into a mutual quest for transcendence. From marriage of convenience to lifetime bond to a state of baseball grace reached only once before in team history, Piazza examines how the stranger from Los Angeles became New Yorks favorite son and why Mets fans continued to rally to Piazzas cause years after he took his final swing for them.

Autor

Greg W. Prince is cocreator of the blog Faith and Fear in Flushing, the daily destination for “Mets fans who like to read” since 2005. His memoir of the same name—“an intense personal history of the New York Mets”—was published in 2009 and was followed in 2016 by Amazin’ Again: How the 2015 New York Mets Brought the Magic Back to Queens. He has written about baseball for the New York Times, Huffington Post, Yahoo! Sports, and ESPN.com; served as a consultant to the film The Last Play at Shea; and helped organize the New York Mets 50th Anniversary conference at Hofstra University. He lives in Baldwin, New York.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.3.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 1988 • 62nd • ballot • ballplayer • ball players • baseball biography • baseball career • baseball hall • baseball history • baseball player • batting cage • books on ballots • books on ball players books on vince • books on baseball players • books on campanella • books on catchers • books on contracts • books on cooperstown • books on dodgers • books on drafts • books on leagues • books on los angeles dodgers • books on losers • books on mike • books on oakland • books on performance-enhancings • books on pro balls • books on round picks • books on rumors • books on sluggers • books on stadia • books on statistics • books on steroids • Campanella • catchers • contract hitting • Cooperstown • Dodger • Draft • drafted • famer • game-winning home • Hit • hitter • home runs • leagues • longshot • Los Angeles Dodgers • losers • Mike • mike piazza • New York Mets • Oakland • on-field • PEDs • performance enhancing • performance-enhancing • pro ball • professional sports • Roger Clemens • round pick • Rumors • single-minded drive • slugger • Stadium • Statistics • Steroids • ted williams • tommy lasorda • traded • Vince • Wheeler
• ISBN-13: 9781683580089 / 9781683580089