Sportsbiografier

A biography of Eddie Collins, one of baseball's most consistently good batters, its best bunter and hit-and-run man, one of its craftiest base runners and finest defensive second basemen. It tells how, during his career, he was repeatedly referred to as the game's smartest player, both on and off the field.

Describes Walsh's life and 14-year playing career, with special discussion of the spitball, a pitch that profoundly affected his fortunes - and ultimately his arm. This biography also explores the years 1905-1911, especially his contributions to the 1906 world champion White Sox and his prominent role in the now-famous 1908 pennant race.

A biography of Bill ""Swish"" Nicholson, baseball's greatest slugger during the World War II era. An oral history of his life, told by him to the Kent County Historical Society in the 1980s, it provides details about his childhood.

Packed with informative insights from within the game of baseball, this title covers 42 years of Lou Gorman's professional baseball career. It captures Gorman's experiences with five different teams and innumerable baseball figures and provides inside look into the game of baseball.

The Blue Ridge Parkway stretches from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in western North Carolina. This text relates author's one-of-a-kind back packing trip along the 469-mile road, along with his observations and recollections regarding the parkway, a unit of the National Park Service.

Sam Rice's career included 2,987 base hits, 13 hits short of one of baseball's most hallowed milestones; he played on three American league pennant winning teams; made one of baseball's most famous catches; and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1963.

Nothing evokes the glory days of Negro Leagues baseball like the name of star pitcher Satchel Paige. This collection of essays and papers based on the 9th Annual Jerry Malloy Negro League Conference focuses on Paige and on the Kansas City Monarchs, the team he led to the Negro Leagues World Series in 1942 and 1946.

Born in 1895 and rising up from humble beginnings in Cincinnati, August ""Garry"" Herrmann entered the murky waters of 19th century machine politics in the city serving as a trusted lieutenant to George B Cox, one of the political bosses in the country. This biography contains the life and times of August ""Garry"" Herrmann.

For 39 seasons at four schools, Dr Edward N Anderson spent autumn afternoons roaming the sidelines of college and university gridirons across America. This biography catalogues the life of that ""good doctor"" who became dean of America's college football coaches and was enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame for lasting influence.

One of early baseball''s most popular celebrities, Arlie Latham played for the St. Louis Browns in the 1880s. A brainy hitter and base-runner, he was also the sport''s brashest, funniest player, his "fresh" personality bringing him as much trouble as reward. He played with the 19th century''s greatest names, and was friends with everyone from King Kelly to King George V. He parlayed his stardom into a vaudeville career and the first official major league coaching job. In his fifties he carried the game he loved into world war to cheer Allied troops and in his seventies went to work for the Yankees. Arlie Latham''s baseball odyssey is made more compelling by the parade of players, gamblers, boxers, actors, women and mascots that passes through it, providing a unique glimpse into America''s game and the people who loved it.

Charles ""Dazzy"" Vance became known as the strike out king after leading the National League in strikeouts seven years in a row. Although this famed baseball pitcher started with his rookie year at age 31, he retired at age 44 without achieving his goal of winning 200 games. This biography covers the life of Vance.

During his long baseball career, Del Wilber caught for the Red Sox, Cardinals and Phillies; managed 6 minor league teams; scouted for 4 major league clubs; and served as third base coach for the Senators. Written by his son, this biographical memoir recounts Del Wilber's life from the perspective of a son who grew up in major league dugouts.

Known today as ""the Babe Ruth of the 1880s"", Hall of Famer Roger Connor was the greatest of the nineteenth-century home run hitters. When he retired in 1897, he was also tops in triples (233), second in walks and total bases, third in hits, and fourth in doubles. This biography sheds new light on the life and five-decade baseball career of one of the games most admired and beloved players.

Possessed of one of the most creative minds in the game's long history, Rickey made early use of statistical analysis, pioneered the farm system, and pressed for the expansion of major league baseball. This biography is based on hundreds of interviews and research, including access to Rickey's own papers.

From his first match in the late 1870s through his final fight in 1905, this biography contains a detailed accounting of John L Sullivan's boxing career. With special attention to the 1880s, it follows Sullivan's skill development and discusses his opponents in detail, providing various viewpoints of a single event.

Delves into the life and baseball career of Whitey Ford, the Hall of Fame left-hander who helped the Yankees win 11 pennants and six world championships. His story is detailed here with play-by-play action and personal anecdotes. Seven appendices offer Ford's career statistics and compare him to other great pitchers.

When in 1911 Phillies pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander set the National League record for wins by a rookie (28), it was a sign of things to come. This biography sheds light on the pitcher and the man, focusing on Alexander's personal life, especially his complex relationship with his wife, Aimee, as well as their marriages and divorces.

In the decades before baseball fans became enamored with sluggers, only Frank Baker entered baseball mythology. This is the story of a young Baker struggling to make it to the majors, and then nearly throwing it all away in a contract dispute with the Connie Mack; the story of the deadball era and the transition to the game we know.

History has remembered Carl Furillo as an opponent of Jackie Robinson becoming a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers, despite that being untrue. This biography sets the record straight, while also detailing Furillo's contributions as a clutch hitter and an outstanding right fielder, his angry departure from the team, his hearing before the commissioner of baseball, and his life after the sport.

Nicknamed ""Orator"" for his booming voice and his championing of the rights of professional athletes, Jim O'Rourke was a driving force bringing respectability to the role of professional baseball player. This book provides a behind-the-scenes look at the growth of the national pastime from the Civil War through the deadball era.

This work looks at the lives and careers of 17 veteran spitballers: Red Faber, Burleigh Grimes, Jack Quinn, Urban Shocker, Stan Coveleskie, Bill Doak, Ray Caldwell, Clarence Mitchell, Dutch Leonard, Ray Fisher, Dick Rudolph, Allen Sothoron, Phil Douglas, Allan Russell, Doc Ayers, Dana Fillingim and Marvin Goodwin.

This biography of Joe McCarthy details the 90-year life of one of the greatest managers in baseball. Baseball was McCarthy's ticket out of a working-class existence in Germantown, Pennsylvania, taking him to college, the minor leagues, managerial stints in baseball's backwaters, and on to remarkable years with the Yankees, Cubs and Red Sox.

Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1948, Pie Traynor was the face of Pittsburgh baseball during the twenties and thirties, a time when the Pirates were a perennial pennant contender. Traynor was a line-drive hitter who drove in runs as effectively with doubles and triples as most of his peers did launching balls over the fence.

This is a behind-the-scenes look at the lowest rung of professional baseball, and a biography of Max McLeary, the one-eyed umpire. Author Mike Shannon spent the 2000 Frontier League season attending games with McLeary and gives his account of the season here.

McGinnity may have been the most durable hurler in the history of the sport, often pitching both games of a doubleheader. This biography traces the hard life and colorful career of 'Iron Man' McGinnity from his childhood working the coalfields of Illinois to his death in 1929.

Ninteen twenty was a crucial year for the Chicago White Sox and for the game of baseball, in the aftermath of the 1919 World Series scandal. This work is a collective biography of four individuals whose baseball careers were forever altered in 1920 and an examination of the 1920 baseball season.

This biography traces the early life of George Edward Waddell in western Pennsylvania, the fits and starts of his first years in professional baseball, his big years with the A's, and his subsequent fade into obscurity and his early death.

Eric Tabarly was one of yachting''s iconic figures who became a legend in French sailing from the moment he beat the British to win the second edition of the single-handed transatlantic in 1976. He would go on to race in the Sydney Hobart, The Fastnet Race and the Transpac, winning line honours in all three. In 1984 he was voted the most popular sports figure in France. In 1998 was struck by the boom and swept overboard to his death - France and the international sailing community mourned. This is the first English translation of his autobiography.

The grippingly honest memoir of Olympic and World champion cyclist Nicole Cooke, a fearless campaigner against the doping that has blighted her sport

Beyond the statistical record of this truly great baseball player, this book focuses on Mel Ott's personal life, his strong family ties, and the contributions that he made to the game of baseball. This volume is enhanced by intimate contact with the Ott family, particularly his daughters Lyn and Barbara, both of whom contributed to the story.