Real Grass, Real Heroes
Title | Real Grass, Real Heroes PDF eBook |
Author | Dom DiMaggio |
Publisher | Zebra Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1991-06 |
Genre | Baseball |
ISBN | 9780821734094 |
1941 was baseball's most memorable season. Played out against the backdrop of the growing storm clouds of World War II, the season was remarkable both for its players and events--and for its significance as the end of an era in the history of the sport.
Real Grass, Real Heroes
Title | Real Grass, Real Heroes PDF eBook |
Author | Don Dimaggio |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1995-05-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780517146187 |
Real Grass, Real Heroes
Title | Real Grass, Real Heroes PDF eBook |
Author | Dom DiMaggio |
Publisher | Zebra Books |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 9780821730324 |
The brother of baseball legend Joe DiMaggio and a respected player in his own right offers a touching memoir of baseball and the country that revered it in the 1940s
Real Sports Heroes
Title | Real Sports Heroes PDF eBook |
Author | John Garrity |
Publisher | Total/Sports Illustrated |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2001-05-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781930844278 |
A collection of inside stories about the greatest athletes of all time focuses on everythong from black tennis star Arthur Ashe to baseball legend Roberto Clemente. Original.
Baseball when the Grass was Real
Title | Baseball when the Grass was Real PDF eBook |
Author | Donald Honig |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1993-01-01 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 9780803272675 |
Honig interviewed former big-league players across the country to compile this nostalgic book packed with statistics, action, revelations, and an extraordinary oral history of the halcyon days of baseball between the world wars. Includes comments by Ted Williams, Bucky Waters, Lou Gehrig, and others. Photos.
Above and Beyond
Title | Above and Beyond PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Osmond |
Publisher | |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 2014-03-31 |
Genre | Soldiers |
ISBN | 9780615972527 |
"This is a collection of short, easy to read accounts of those that have given so much for you and me. Each story is true. Countless hours were spent researching each and every one to make them as detailed and accurate as possible. There is no underlying political message in this book. It is intended to honor those that give meaning to words like "courage", "dedication", "honor", and "self-sacrifice" and do so in the pursuit of freedom for you and me."--Amazon.com
Ted Williams
Title | Ted Williams PDF eBook |
Author | Leigh Montville |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2004-04-13 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0385507496 |
The Kid. The Splendid Splinter. Teddy Ballgame. One of the greatest figures of his generation, and arguably the greatest baseball hitter of all time. But what made Ted Williams a legend – and a lightning rod for controversy in life and in death? Still a gangly teenager when he stepped into a Boston Red Sox uniform in 1939, Williams’s boisterous personality and penchant for towering home runs earned him adoring admirers and venomous critics. In 1941, the entire country followed Williams's stunning .406 season, a record that has not been touched in over six decades. Then at the pinnacle of his prime, Williams left Boston to train and serve as a fighter pilot in World War II, missing three full years of baseball, making his achievements all the more remarkable. Ted Willams's personal life was equally colorful. His attraction to women (and their attraction to him) was a constant. He was married and divorced three times and he fathered two daughters and a son. He was one of corporate America's first modern spokesmen, and he remained, nearly into his eighties, a fiercely devoted fisherman. With his son, John Henry Williams, he devoted his final years to the sports memorabilia business, even as illness overtook him. And in death, controversy and public outcry followed Williams and the disagreements between his children over the decision to have his body preserved for future resuscitation in a cryonics facility--a fate, many argue, Williams never wanted. With unmatched verve and passion, and drawing upon hundreds of interviews, acclaimed best-selling author Leigh Montville brings to life Ted Williams's superb triumphs, lonely tragedies, and intensely colorful personality, in a biography that is fitting of an American hero and legend.