Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told Thirty Unforgettable Tales from the Diamond

Name: Greatest Baseball Stories Ever Told Thirty Unforgettable Tales from the Diamond
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ISBN: 9781592280834

ISBN-10: 1592280838

ISBN-13: 9781592280834

Edition: 2001

Authors: Jeff Silverman, Jeff Silverman

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At a 1931 barnstorming exhibition game in Tennessee, a seventeen-year-old pitcher for the Chattanooga Lookouts struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig back to back. Her name was Jackie Mitchell--"organized baseball's first girl pitcher." On September 9, 1965, Sandy Koufax made baseball history by pitching his fourth perfect game. In July 1970, a stripper rushed onto the field at Riverfront Stadium to kiss Johnny Bench, temporarily disrupting a game attended by President Nixon and his family. These are just some of the great, quirky, and comic moments in the annals of baseball recorded in THE GREATEST BASEBALL STORIES EVER TOLD. Here also are profiles of such legendary figures as Joe DiMaggio,…

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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press, The
Publication date: 1/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

JEFF SILVERMAN, a former columnist for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, has written for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and several national magazines. He is also the editor of Classic Baseball Stories (page TK), The Greatest Golf Stories Ever Told (page TK), Classic Golf Stories (page TK), Bernard Darwin on Golf (page TK), and The Greatest Boxing Stories Ever Told (page TK). He lives with his family in West Chester, Pennsylvania.



Introduction



Who's on First?



Wait Till Next Year



The Web of the Game



Alibi Ike



Ty Cobb's Wild, Ten-Month Fight to Live



Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu



Casey at the Congress


Going to the Moon



The Birth of Joe Hardy



A Scotchman, a Phantom, and a Shiny Blue Jacket



On Jackie Robinson



A Mickey Mantle Koan



The Catch



Old Well-Well



His Most Prized Possession Was That '54 Eddie



Keith



Baseball Players Called Her Ma



The Pitcher and the Plutocrat



One Down, 713 to Go



Roger Maris



Home run Fever



Woman Whiffs Ruth and Gehrig



The Silent Season of a Hero



A Native Son's Thoughts



K as in Koufax



The Rocky Road of Pistol Pete



One Vote for Morganna



Yogi



The Thrill of the Grass



The Green Fields of the Mind



About the Editor


Permissions Acknowledgments