Cobb Would Have Caught It

Cobb Would Have Caught It

Richard Bak

33,51 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Editorial:
Wayne State University Press
Año de edición:
1993
ISBN:
9780814323564
33,51 €
IVA incluido
Disponible

Selecciona una librería:

  • Librería 7artes
  • Donde los libros
  • Librería Elías (Asturias)
  • Librería Kolima (Madrid)
  • Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Sobre IBD

The period from 1920 through the early post-World War II years remains the greatest in the long history of the Detroit Tigers Baseball Club. Between 1920 and 1950 the club won four pennants and two World Series, placed second seven times, and regularly fielded exciting, competitive teams.Richard Bak spent ten years recording the life stories of nearly two dozen Tigers players from Detroit's "golden age." There was no pattern to how life had treated them since their playing days—some had stayed in the game as broadcasters or scouts; others had slipped into quiet anonymity as milkmen or machine repairmen. Bak retains the flavor of each man's speech and the integrity of his character. Players' interviews are prefaced with a short history of the parallel paths the city and professional baseball took from the end of World War I through the early 1950s.

Artículos relacionados

  • A Whole Lot of Bar-B-Q
    Mike Shannon
    An anthology of nine touching and funny stories by the editor of Spitball Magazine, and author of 16 baseball books. The book is filled with characters from all walks of life, all of whom are gripped, one way or another, by the force of that feeling so many of us have for baseball. Among the book's characters are a lottery winner whose dream of owning a baseball team turns in...
    Disponible

    10,23 €

  • The Faith of 50 Million
    Evans
    ...
    Disponible

    42,58 €

  • Little League Confidential
    Bill Geist
    ...
    Consulta disponibilidad

    13,56 €

  • Almost a Dynasty
    William C. Kashatus
    Being a Phillies fan has never been easy. The team has amassed the most losses of any professional sports franchise in history, as well as the longest losing streak and the most last-place finishes in the major leagues.The year 1980 was redemption for a miserable, century-old legacy of losing. It was also the beginning of the end for a team that could have been among the very b...
    Consulta disponibilidad

    24,93 €

  • The Secret Game
    Howard Burman
    For many years stories circulated about a secret baseball game.One bleak raw night in February 1911 Al Sangree, the well-known columnist for the New York Journal, and a few others were gathered around a table in the grill of the Keystone Hotel in York, Pennsylvania, talking baseball when Sangree explained the game.According to Sangree, in early October, 1909, immediately follow...
    Disponible

    36,40 €

  • Real Grass, Real Heroes
    Dom DiMaggio
    ...
    Disponible

    12,56 €

Otros libros del autor

  • The Big Jump
    Richard Bak
    The trans-Atlantic air race of 1927 and the flight that made Charles Lindbergh a heroThe race to make the first nonstop flight between the New York and Paris attracted some of the most famous and seasoned aviators of the day, yet it was the young and lesser known Charles Lindbergh who won the $25,000 Orteig Prize in 1927 for his history-making solo flight in the Spirit of St. L...
    Disponible

    15,27 €

  • A Place for Summer
    Richard Bak
    On April 28, 1896, baseball fans traveled in horse-drawn buggies to watch the Detroit Tigers play their first baseball game at the site on the corner of Michigan and Trumbull Avenues. Starting out as Bennett Park, a wooden facility with trees growing in the outfield, Tiger Stadium has played a central role in the lives of millions of Detroiters and their families for more than ...
    Disponible

    40,08 €

  • rkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars
    Richard Bak
    In recalling the early part of this century in baseball history, casual fans tend to glorify legends like Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth. While these remarkable players dazzled fans and grabbed headlines, black players who were every bit as good went unnoticed outside the Negro leagues. Because a "gentleman's agreement" among the white owners of organized baseball banned blacks from...
    Disponible

    28,60 €