Steve Steinberg

Urban Shocker

Silent Hero of Baseball's Golden Age

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Produktbeschreibung

Steve Steinberg is a baseball historian and coauthor with Lyle Spatz of The Colonel and Hug: The Partnership that Transformed the New York Yankees (Nebraska, 2015), research award winner from the Society for American Baseball Research, and 1921: The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York (Nebraska, 2010), winner of the Seymour Medal.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 686g
• ISBN-13: 9780803295995
• ISBN-10: 0803295995
• Artikelnr.: 46969098

Autorenporträt

Steve Steinberg is a baseball historian and coauthor with Lyle Spatz of The Colonel and Hug: The Partnership that Transformed the New York Yankees (Nebraska, 2015), research award winner from the Society for American Baseball Research, and 1921: The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York (Nebraska, 2010), winner of the Seymour Medal.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Passing By and Drawn In
2. Midwest Connections
3. Sandlots and Love of the Game
4. An Emerging Star in the Minors
5. False Start
6. A Magical Summer on the Island
7. Motor City Mischief 
8. The Returned Prodigal and the Coming Phenom
9. The Dream Team
10. The First Trade
11. Love and War and a Little Baseball
12. A Summer to Remember
13. The End of an Era
14. Challenging the Great One 
15 The Showdowns Continue 
16. The Underdog Arises
17. Good but Not Lucky
18. A Lost Season
19. Free Agency in 1924? 
20. The Temperamental Spitballist
21. Back Where I Belong
22. Clouds Approaching
23. The Season That Wasn’t
24. Hope Springs Eternal
25. The Comeback
26. Moment in the Sun
27. The Master at Work 
28. Promises and Secrets
29. A Star Surfaces and Crashes
30. A Day of Death and Rebirth
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index