Dave Parker, Dave Jordan

Cobra (eBook, ePUB)

A Life of Baseball and Brotherhood

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Finalist for the 2021 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year"For that period of time, he was the greatest player of my generation."-Keith Hernandez Dave Parker was one of the biggest and most badass baseball players of the late twentieth century. He stood at six foot five and weighed 235 pounds. He was a seven-time All-Star, a two-time batting champion, a frequent Gold Glove winner, the 1978 National League MVP, and a World Series champion with both the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Oakland A's. Here the great Dave Parker delivers his wild and long-awaited autobiography-an authoritative account of Black baseball during its heyday as seen through the eyes of none other than the Cobra. From his earliest professional days learning the game from such baseball legends as Pie Traynor and Roberto Clemente to his later years mentoring younger talents like Eric Davis and Barry Larkin, Cobra is the story of a Black athlete making his way through the game during a time of major social and cultural transformation. From the racially integrated playing fields of his high school days to the cookie-cutter cathedrals of his prime alongside all the midseason and late-night theatrics that accompany an athlete's life on the road-Parker offers readers a glimpse of all that and everything in between. Everything. Parker recounts the triumphant victories and the heart-breaking defeats, both on and off the field. He shares the lessons and experiences of reaching the absolute pinnacle of professional athletics, the celebrations with his sports siblings who also got a taste of the thrills, as well as his beloved baseball brothers whom the game left behind. Parker recalls the complicated politics of spring training, recounts the early stages of the free agency era, revisits the notorious 1985 drug trials, and pays tribute to the enduring power of relationships between players at the deepest and highest levels of the sport. With comments at the start of each chapter by other baseball legends such as Pete Rose, Dave Winfield, Willie Randolph, and many more, Parker tells an epic tale of friendship, success, indulgence, and redemption, but most of all, family. Cobra is the unforgettable story of a million-dollar athlete just before baseball became a billion-dollar game.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496226594
• Artikelnr.: 72428316

Autorenporträt

Dave Parker played nineteen seasons in the Major Leagues and was the first million-dollar-per-year player. He lives in Ohio, where he has created the Dave Parker 39 Foundation, an organization focused on finding a cure for Parkinson’s disease. Dave Jordan is a writer and filmmaker living in New Jersey. He has written for Sporting News, SB Nation, and the Hardball Times , and he is the coauthor (with John D’Acquisto) of Fastball John.  

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Prologue: Pittsburgh, September 11, 1985
1. My Beautiful Balloon
2. Buckeye Battle Cry
3. My Cherie Amour
4. Everybody Is a Star
5. Are You Experienced?
6. Gotta Get Over the Hump
7. Brother, Brother, Brother
8. Mr. Bojangles
9. Here I Am
10. Black Water
11. Higher Ground
12. Me and Baby Brother
13. The Sound of Philadelphia
14. Show Me the Way
15. Starchild Here!!!
16. Take Me to the Next Phase (Part 1)
17. Take Me to the Next Phase (Part 2)
18. The Ohio Players
19. One Nation under a Groove
20. Family
21. This Is Your Life
22. Fame
23. Funkytown
24. If You Ever Wondered
25. Trouble Man
26. You Dropped a Bomb on Me
27. The Time Has Come Today
Epilogue: Everyday People
Acknowledgments