Felipe Alou, Peter Kerasotis

Alou (eBook, PDF)

My Baseball Journey

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Produktbeschreibung

Growing up in a tiny shack in the Dominican Republic, Felipe Alou never dreamed he would be the first man to go from his country to play and manage in Major League Baseball¿and also the first to play in the World Series. Today, the Dominican Republic produces more Major League players than any country outside the United States. In this extraordinary autobiography, Alou tells of his real dream: to become a doctor. An uncle was funding his university education when an improbable turn of events intervened at the 1955 Pan American Games. There as a track and field athlete, Alou was pressed into service on the baseball field to replace a player sent home for disciplinary reasons. A scout noticed Alou and offered him two hundred pesos to sign a pro contract. Knowing his father owed the grocer exactly two hundred pesos, Alou signed. Battling racism in the United States and political turmoil in his home country, Alou persevered, paving the way for younger brothers Matty and Jesús and scores of other Dominicans, including his son Moisés. A fourth Alou brother, Juan, might have joined the historic trio if not for the improbable direction his own life took. Alou played seventeen years in the Major Leagues, accumulating more than two thousand hits and two hundred home runs, and then managed another fourteen¿four with the San Francisco Giants and ten with the Montreal Expos, where he became the winningest manager in franchise history. Alou became a special friend of Roberto Clemente, roomed with Willie McCovey, Orlando Cepeda, Juan Marichal, and Joe Torre, and suffered the tragic death of his firstborn son. Aloüs pioneering journey is embedded in the history of baseball, the Dominican Republic, and a remarkable family.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496207951
• Artikelnr.: 55972450

Autorenporträt

Felipe Alou serves as special assistant to the general manager for the San Francisco Giants. He is an inductee in both the Canadian and the Latino Baseball Hall of Fame and lives with his wife, Lucie, in Boynton Beach, Florida. Peter Kerasotis is an author and journalist who has won ten Associated Press Sports Editor awards, six Football Writers Association of America awards, and seven Florida Sports Writers Association awards. Pedro Martínez is a Hall of Fame pitcher who, like Felipe Alou, is a native of the Dominican Republic. Bruce Bochy is a former Major League Baseball player who managed the Padres for twelve seasons and most recently managed the San Francisco Giants for thirteen seasons, during which he led the Giants to three World Series Championships.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Introduction
Part 1. 1935–1956
1. A Name
2. A Childhood
Part 2. 1956–1957
3. Coming to America
4. Just Give Me a Chance
5. Moving Up
Part 3. 1958–1963
6. The Rookie
7. Roberto Clemente
8. Beginning of the End
9. Dawn of a Decade
10. Dark Days
11. Death of a Dictator
12. The Road to the World Series
13. 1962 World Series
14. The Alous Said Hello; the Giants Said Goodbye
Part 4. 1964–1970s
15. Brave New World
16. Settling In
17. Trouble at Home
18. Hitting the Sweet Spot
19. Family Matters
20. Winding Down
Part 5. 1975–Today
21. The Transition
22. The Road Back
23. Big Time Again in the Big Leagues
24. A New Beginning
25. 1994
26. The Demise of the Expos and Me
27. It Ain’t Over till You’re Done
28. Managing Philosophy
29. You Can Go Home Again
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Chronology