Johnny Mize

A Biography of Baseball's "Big Cat"

Lew Freedman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

207 Seiten

2022
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-8593-9 (ISBN)

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During his 15-season Major League career, slugger Johnny Mize was among the preeminent power hitters in baseball, a star for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants, and New York Yankees. This first full-length biography traces the arc of Mize’s career through his prime years in the limelight to his retirement.

During his 15-season Major League career, slugger Johnny Mize was among the preeminent power hitters in baseball, a star for the St. Louis Cardinals and the New York Giants, and a clutch player for the New York Yankees when they won five straight World Series in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Raised in rural Georgia, Mize caught the tail end of the Cardinals' Gas House Gang era and had his career interrupted by World War II before achieving greatness at the plate. An MVP, perennial All-Star and four-time National League home-run champion, he made a science of batting and wrote a book on it (How to Hit, 1953). This first full-length biography traces the arc of Mize's career through his prime years in the limelight to his retirement, when renewed interest in his legacy saw him inducted into the Hall of Fame.

Lew Freedman is a long-time, prize-winning journalist for such newspapers as the Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune, Anchorage Daily News and Wyoming’s Cody Enterprise. Specializing in sports and the outdoors, he has written more than 100 books. He lives in Columbus, Indiana.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. Beginnings

2. The Minors

3. The Majors—Rookie Year

4. Cardinals Stardom

5. Low-Key Johnny Amid the Wild Men

6. Hitting Your Best

7. Home Runs in Bunches

8. 1939

9. St. Louis Shakes Things Up

10. Giants and War

11. Getting Back in the Swing with the Giants

12. Johnny Mize’s Greatest Year

13. Last Call with the Giants

14. A Winner in No Time

15. Getting Set for a World Series

16. The 1949 World Series

17. Let’s Do It Again

18. Legends Crossing

19. 1952

20. Last Call

21. Retirement

Epilogue: The Hall at Last

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.04.2022
Zusatzinfo	10 photos, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	286 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
ISBN-10	1-4766-8593-2 / 1476685932
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-8593-9 / 9781476685939
Zustand	Neuware