Dale Tafoya

One Season in Rocket City

How the 1985 Huntsville Stars Brought Minor League Baseball Fever to Alabama

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Produktbeschreibung

Dale Tafoya brings to life the baseball renaissance that shook up Huntsville, Alabama, in 1985, when the Stars took the Southern League by storm.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781496230737
• ISBN-10: 1496230736
• Artikelnr.: 64201675

Autorenporträt

Dale Tafoya is the author of Billy Ball: Billy Martin and the Resurrection of the Oakland A’s and Bash Brothers: A Legacy Subpoenaed (Potomac Books, 2008). His work has appeared in the New York Daily News, New York Post, Sports Illustrated, The Athletic, Baseball Digest, and other noteworthy publications. Sandy Alderson is special advisor to the New York Mets after serving previously as their team president and general manager. He served as the Oakland A’s general manager from 1983 to 1997.  

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Sandy Alderson
Prologue: Musical Chairs
1. Music City’s Field of Dreams
2. The Phenom
3. Albany Takeover
4. Rocket City
5. New Kids on the Block
6. Huntsville Stars
7. The Huntsville Kid
8. Falling Stars
9. Huntsville Lumber
10. Southern Comfort
11. Boys of Summer
12. Champions
Epilogue: Season for the Ages
In Memory
Acknowledgments
Notes on Research and Sources
Bibliography
Index