Baseball's Greatest What If - Joseph, Dan
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In 1942, Pete Reiser was on the road to baseball superstardom. Then, he crashed into a wall - an unpadded, concrete outfield wall as tried to make a game-saving catch. And for Pete, nothing was ever the same. A year earlier, at age 22, he had won a batting title, a rookie of the year award and a pennant with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Sportswriters could not stop marveling at his skill set, highlighted by a keen batting eye, a rifle throwing arm and speed that whisked him from home to first in three-point-six seconds. Baseball men compared him to some of the game's all-time greats, including Ty…mehr

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In 1942, Pete Reiser was on the road to baseball superstardom. Then, he crashed into a wall - an unpadded, concrete outfield wall as tried to make a game-saving catch. And for Pete, nothing was ever the same. A year earlier, at age 22, he had won a batting title, a rookie of the year award and a pennant with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Sportswriters could not stop marveling at his skill set, highlighted by a keen batting eye, a rifle throwing arm and speed that whisked him from home to first in three-point-six seconds. Baseball men compared him to some of the game's all-time greats, including Ty Cobb and Joe DiMaggio. The crash shunted Pete onto a rockier path, one marked by headaches, mismanagement, hard luck and sadly, more collisions with outfield walls. He'd enjoy scattered triumphs on this road too, and win a place in baseball history as the man who spurred teams to install warning tracks and pad the walls. But to this day, students of the game invoke his name when somebody asks, which player is baseball's greatest what-if? Dan Joseph believes Reiser is that player, and lays out his case in this groundbreaking new biography. The author examines old tales about Pete, ones where he allegedly fought off dizziness to slash game-winning hits. But Joseph digs deeper into Pete's life and career to learn what made this extraordinary player risk his health, and his skull, for the sake of victory.
Autorenporträt
Dan Joseph is an editor by day and an author by night who lives in the Washington, DC, area. A Pittsburgh native and graduate of Indiana University, Dan has worked for more than 20 years at the Voice of America, most as an editor in VOA's central newsroom, running the Africa desk. His first book, Inside Al-Shabaab (co-authored with Harun Maruf), was a revealing account of the inner workings of the Somali terrorist group. His second, Last Ride of the Iron Horse, tells the tale of Lou Gehrig's final year in the Yankee lineup, 1938, as he battled the early effects of the fatal disease ALS. A member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), Dan uncovered the long-lost radio clip of Gehrig saying yes, Babe Ruth DID call his shot in the 1932 World Series. He is also one of the youngest people alive to have attended a Pittsburgh Pirates World Series game. Learn more about him at DanJosephauthor.net.