Mort Zachter

Gil Hodges

A Hall of Fame Life

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Produktbeschreibung

Mort Zachter is a former tax attorney and adjunct tax professor at New York University. His first book, Dough: A Memoir, won the 2006 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Book Prize for nonfiction.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 160mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 885g
• ISBN-13: 9780803211247
• ISBN-10: 0803211244
• Artikelnr.: 41245571

Autorenporträt

Mort Zachter is a former tax attorney and adjunct tax professor at New York University. His first book, Dough: A Memoir, won the 2006 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Book Prize for nonfiction.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
Prologue: His Reputation Preceded Him
HOME-Princeton and Petersburg (1924-43)
1. Coal Miner's Son
2. The Twig, the Branch, and the Lip
AWAY-The Pacific (1944-45); Newport News (1946)
3. Okinawa
4. Newport News
HOME-Brooklyn (1947-57)
5. Hanging On
6. Breaking Through
7. Four in One, One for Four
8. Great Expectations
9. A Bitter Uniqueness
10. Say a Prayer
11. The Day Next Year Arrived
12. Where in America Would You See That?
13. The Last Season
AWAY-Los Angeles (1958-61)
14. The Worst Place Ever
15. World Champions
HOME-Manhattan (1962)
16. Casey
AWAY-Washington DC (1963-67)
17. In the Cellar
18. Off the Floor
19. On the Doorstep of Respectability
HOME-Queens (1968-72)
20. The Mets Get Serious
21. Contenders
22. Miracle
23. Struggles in the Spotlight
24. Easter Sunday
Epilogue: A Life
Afterword: Hodges and the Hall
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index