epub |eng | 2012-12-26 | Author:Paul Dickson

Many people agreed with Veeck’s opinion that the American League was in especially bad shape. Red Smith of the New York Herald Tribune called it “sickly,” stemming in part from ...

mobi |eng | 2013-01-22 | Author:Terry Francona

CHAPTER 11 • 2008 • “This will not help us win” RED SOX NATION WAS GLOBAL. The Sox were the most popular sports team on the planet. The Sox were ...

epub |eng | 2012-08-31 | Author:Bobby Richardson

Chapter 12 Too Much Koufax In November of ’62 I received word that the Yankees had traded our first baseman, Bill “Moose” Skowron, to the Los Angeles Dodgers for pitcher ...

epub |eng | 2005-04-17 | Author:Lewis, Michael [Lewis, Michael]

Not long after that, the English teacher who also had the misfortune to experience me as a freshman held me after class to say that, by some happy miracle, I ...

epub |eng | 2011-10-15 | Author:Jim Piersall & Hirshberg [Piersall, Jim]

WHEN YOU LOOK OUT the window of the violent room in the Westborough State Hospital, your eye first catches sight of a huge water tower, which is set high on ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:J. B. Bernstein

CHAPTER 7 I carried my piece of plywood out of the clubhouse where I’d stashed it and laid it across a bleacher chair. The California sun was strong, even for ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Doug Harvey & Peter Golenbock

— 2 — Red was managing in my first World Series in 1968 against the Detroit Tigers. With the Cardinals leading three games to one, game five pitted the Cards’ ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Chris Ballard

Thursday morning dawned blessedly clear. At 1 P.M., the boys fled class and headed for the bus, playing cards on the hour-long ride to Champaign Central High. Located two miles ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-01 | Author:C. David Heymann [Heymann, C. David]

Chapter 14 IN SEPTEMBER 1957 JOE DIMAGGIO Jr. transferred from Black-Foxe Military Institute in Los Angeles to Lawrenceville Prep School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. At the time a boys’ boarding ...

epub |eng | 2011-06-07 | Author:Arnold Rampersad [Rampersad, Arnold]

CHAPTER 11 Dodging Blows, Fighting Back 1952–1955 What do you think of the booing? Why are they booing me? —Jackie Robinson (1953) DESPITE JACK’S GLOOMY talk about retiring, there was ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-15 | Author:Howard Bryant

BY PURE HAPPENSTANCE, it was Jackie Robinson who indirectly wound up being responsible for Henry’s half century of loyalty to the Democratic party. For years, Henry had sought to pattern ...

epub |eng | 2013-02-19 | Author:Jackie Robinson

XI Campaigning for Nixon I do not consider my decision to back Richard Nixon over John F. Kennedy for the Presidency in 1960 one of my finer ones. It was ...

epub |eng | 2013-12-03 | Author:Ben Bradlee Jr. [Bradlee, Ben Jr.]

Ted’s brilliance in 1957 reverberated well into 1958, producing a burst of glowing press and national recognition. The Associated Press named Ted its 1957 Male Athlete of the Year, and ...

mobi, azw3 |eng | 2003-05-06 | Author:Jackie Robinson & Alfred Duckett

XI Campaigning for Nixon I do not consider my decision to back Richard Nixon over John F. Kennedy for the Presidency in 1960 one of my finer ones. It was ...