Kevin Nelson

The Golden Game

The Story of California Baseball

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Produktbeschreibung

Kevin Nelson is the award-winning author of nineteen books. He spent three years researching and writing The Golden Game, traveling around California to uncover the state¿s storied baseball past. Hank Greenwald is a former Major League Baseball announcer who was for many years the voice of the San Francisco Giants.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9780803283954
• ISBN-10: 0803283954
• Artikelnr.: 41856039

Autorenporträt

Kevin Nelson is the award-winning author of nineteen books. He spent three years researching and writing The Golden Game, traveling around California to uncover the state's storied baseball past. Hank Greenwald is a former Major League Baseball announcer who was for many years the voice of the San Francisco Giants.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Introduction
1. The Seed Is Planted
2. Stagecoach Baseball
3. Enter the Professionals
4. How Casey Advanced to the Bat
5. Train Ride South
6. From Robinson to Lange to Chance
7. A Brand-New Ballgame
8. A Ballpark Blooms in San Francisco
9. The Los Angeles Mix, Winter 1908
10. Schoolboys
11. Playgrounds
12. A Left-Hander for the Oaks
13. There Was a Crooked Man
14. The Pride of Their Community
15. Babe Ruth in California
16. An Experiment in Sound and Light
17. Barnstormers
18. In the Shadows of War
19. Joe, Ted, Jackie
20. War Games
21. Breakthrough
22. Golden Boys
23. In a Corner of the United States
24. Casey, Billy, and the Yanks
25. Brown Derby Baseball
26. They Changed the Game
27. Los Angeles Dodgers vs. San Francisco Giants, April 1958
28. The Last Days of Ty Cobb
29. The Cowboy Rides In
30. The Next Generation
31. 1969
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Source Notes
Bibliography
Index