Eddie Robinson

Lucky Me (eBook, ePUB)

My Sixty-Five Years in Baseball

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Eddie Robinson's career lasted sixty-five years and spanned the era before and during World War II, integration, the organization of the players union, expansion, use of artificial turf, free agency, labor stoppages, and even the steroid era. He was a Minor League player, a Major League player, a coach, a farm director, a general manager, a scout, and a consultant. During his six and a half decades in baseball, he knew, played with or against, or worked for or with many of baseball's greats, including Hank Aaron, Yogi Berra, Joe DiMaggio, Bob Feller, Rogers Hornsby, Mickey Mantle, Satchel Paige, Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth, Tris Speaker, George Steinbrenner, Casey Stengel, Bill Veeck, and Ted Williams. The lively autobiography of Robinson, Lucky Me highlights a career that touched all aspects of the game from player to coach to front-office executive and scout. In it Robinson reveals for the first time that the 1948 Cleveland Indians stole the opposition's signs with the use of a telescope in their drive to the pennant. This edition features a new afterword by C. Paul Rogers III.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803286665
• Artikelnr.: 55281506

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Tom Grieve
Author's Preface
Introduction by Bobby Brown
 
Chapter 1 - Paris, Texas, Roots
Chapter 2 - Breaking into Pro Ball
Chapter 3 - Making Progress
Chapter 4 - A Taste of the Big Time and a World War II Detour
Chapter 5 - International League MVP
Chapter 6 - Big League Rookie
Chapter 7 - A Magical Year in Cleveland
Chapter 8 - An All-State Year in Washington
Chapter 9 - With the Pale Hose
Chapter 10 - A Year in Purgatory, er, Philadelphia
Chapter 11 - From the Outhouse to the Penthouse
Chapter 12 - Fun and Games with the Yankees
Chapter 13 - Playing Out the String
Chapter 14 - Coaching with Paul Richards and the Orioles
Chapter 15 - The Move to Houston and the Start of the Expansion Colt .45s
Chapter 16 - On to Kansas City and Charlie Finley
Chapter 17 - Back to the National League with the Atlanta Braves
Chapter 18 - Fun and Games with Ted Turner
Chapter 19 - Home to Texas
Chapter 20 - The Eddie Chiles Era
Chapter 21 - Working for George
Chapter 22 - Team Consultant--The Last Stage
 
Retrospective
Afterword
Acknowledgments
Index