Dixie Walker Of The Dodgers
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Dixie Walker Of The Dodgers
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Author : Maury Allen
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2010-06-16
Dixie Walker Of The Dodgers written by Maury Allen and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-16 with History categories.
A biography of Fred "Dixie" Walker, a gifted ballplayer who played in the majors for 18 seasons and in 1,905 games, assembling a career batting average of .306 while playing for the Yankees, White Sox, Tigers, Dodgers, and Pirates.
Dixie Walker
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Author : Lyle Spatz
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-01-10
Dixie Walker written by Lyle Spatz and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-10 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Over the course of fifty years in the mid-twentieth century, Fred "Dixie" Walker lived several baseball lives. Dubbed the successor to Babe Ruth after his impressive major league debut in 1931, Walker went from sure-fire prospect to injury-plagued underachiever, to Brooklyn hero, to persona non grata because of his complicated relationship with Jackie Robinson, and finally to redeemed, well-respected minor league manager and major league batting coach. The only player to have been a teammate of both Babe Ruth and Jackie Robinson, Walker is remembered too often for the charge that he tried to keep Robinson from joining the Dodgers. This illuminating biography covers Walker's rollercoaster career, revealing him to be a gentle man, a fiery competitor, and one of the most colorful characters of baseball's most memorable era.
The Dodgers And Me The Inside Story
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Author : Leo Durocher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1948
The Dodgers And Me The Inside Story written by Leo Durocher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1948 with categories.
The Brooklyn Dodgers In The 1940s
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Author : Rudy Marzano
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2005-01-29
The Brooklyn Dodgers In The 1940s written by Rudy Marzano and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-29 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Before the rise of the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s, baseball was a game of white men, cloth caps and concrete walls. Four men helped to change the sport as America knew it: Branch Rickey, Larry MacPhail, Jackie Robinson and Pete Reiser. These men were essential to the evolution of baseball, especially in their home of Brooklyn's Ebbets Field. It was there that the first major league game was televised, where the batting helmet was developed, where the first walls were padded and the first outfield warning tracks laid down and--with the arrival of Jackie Robinson, it is where the color line was broken. This richly researched history which includes chapters such as "1940: MacPhail Starts a Dodger Dynasty," "1942: FDR Says the Show Must Go On" and "The War Years," presents an exploration of how a crucial decade of Dodger accomplishments transformed American baseball.
The High Hard One
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Author : Kirby Higbe
language : en
Publisher: New York : Viking Press
Release Date : 1967
The High Hard One written by Kirby Higbe and has been published by New York : Viking Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Sports & Recreation categories.
The Brooklyn Dodgers
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Author : Frank Graham
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 2002
The Brooklyn Dodgers written by Frank Graham and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Sports & Recreation categories.
First published in 1945 as part of the acclaimed Putnam series of team histories, Frank Graham’s colorful chronicle presents the Brooklyn Dodgers in “all their glory and all their daffiness” from the team’s beginnings as the Atlantics in 1883 through 1943, with a short summary of the 1944 season. In his foreword, Hall of Fame sports writer Jack Lang writes that “in an era that produced for New York sports fans such outstanding sportswriters as Grantland Rice, Sid Mercer, Bill Slocum, Bob Considine, and Tommy Holmes, one of the very best was Frank Graham, whose columns appeared in the New York Sun and later the Journal-American.” Graham covers every aspect of the Dodgers—games, fans, players, managers, executives. And these Dodgers produced their share of legends: Wee Willie Keeler, Mickey Owen, Dazzy Vance, Babe Herman, Charles H. Ebbets, Wilbert Robinson, Charles Byrne, Casey Stengel, Leo Durocher, Zack Wheat, Burleigh Grimes, Steve McKeever, Ed McKeever, Larry MacPhail, Max Carey, Dixie Walker, Branch Rickey, Dolph Camilli, Hugh Casey, Nap Rucker, Van Lingle Mungo, and the voice of the Dodgers, Red Barber. Dealing with the various executives, Graham notes that in the beginning, Charles Ebbets did everything from selling tickets and scorecards to helping out in the front office. In the 1930s, the inept Dodgers provoked laughter until Larry MacPhail moved from Cincinnati to Brooklyn in 1938; one year later, the Dodgers were contenders. When MacPhail departed for the Army after the 1942 season, Branch Rickey succeeded him. Rickey’s scouts signed every youngster who could hit, run, or throw, even though many of them were headed for the war. “When they came back in 1946,” Lang explains, “Rickey had cornered the market on the nation’s young talent—more than six hundred ballplayers.” This history of the Brooklyn Dodgers contains eighteen black-and-white illustrations.
The Team That Forever Changed Baseball And America
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Author : Lyle Spatz
language : en
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Release Date : 2012-04
The Team That Forever Changed Baseball And America written by Lyle Spatz and has been published by Jewish Publication Society this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04 with Sports & Recreation categories.
Tells the story of the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers in contextualized biographies of the players, managers, and everyone else important to the team.
Bums
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Author : Peter Golenbock
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2010-01-01
Bums written by Peter Golenbock and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
It's been over 50 years since they moved to Los Angeles, but the Brooklyn Dodgers remain ingrained in the fabric of our national pastime. Golenbock's oral history of these "lovable losers" tells the team's tale through the words of Pee Wee Reese, Leo Durocher, Duke Snider, and other Brooklyn greats.
42 Is Not Just A Number
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Author : Doreen Rappaport
language : en
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Release Date : 2017-09-05
42 Is Not Just A Number written by Doreen Rappaport and has been published by Candlewick Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-05 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Baseball, basketball, football — no matter the game, Jackie Robinson excelled. His talents would have easily landed another man a career in pro sports, but in America in the 1930s and ’40s, such opportunities were closed to athletes like Jackie for one reason: his skin was the wrong color. Settling for playing baseball in the Negro Leagues, Jackie chafed at the inability to prove himself where it mattered most: the major leagues. Then in 1946, Branch Rickey, manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, decided he was going to break the “rules” of segregation: he recruited Jackie Robinson. Fiercely determined, Jackie faced cruel and sometimes violent hatred and discrimination, but he proved himself again and again, exhibiting courage, restraint, and a phenomenal ability to play the game. In this compelling biography, award-winning author Doreen Rappaport chronicles the extraordinary life of Jackie Robinson and how his achievements won over — and changed — a segregated nation.
Bottom Of The Ninth
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Author : Larry Powell
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2000-11-16
Bottom Of The Ninth written by Larry Powell and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Harry "The Hat" Walker's life in and out of baseball was full of adventures and conflict. He got the game winning hit in the 1946 World Series as St. Louis defeated Boston on Enos Slaughter's mad dash for home, he won the National League batting title in 1947, and he managed three major league teams. In between, he was a decorated war hero in World War II and had an inside view as Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier. Bottom of the Ninth looks at his career -- from his view, those of his friends, and some of his enemies.