Bøker av William A. Cook

Cincinnati Reds leadoff hitter Johnny Temple batted over.300 three times between 1954 and 1959. A tobacco chewing, tough-talking hustler, he had a fiery disposition on the field which led many sportswriters, teammates and opposing players to refer to him as a throwback to baseball's early days - an Eddie Stanky or Enos Slaughter type who would challenge anyone to a fight.

Born in Austin, Texas in 1899, Bibb August Falk was a classic stereotype of a tall Texan; a man who brimmed with confidence and played the game of baseball with a swagger. Retiring from major league baseball after a brilliant playing career following the 1931 season, Falk returned to the University of Texas in 1940 as head baseball coach and proceeded to become a Longhorn legend.

This biography of Waite Hoyt involves many great moments in baseball history, and includes some of the classic tales that Hoyt, a natural-born storyteller, would tell about his teammates.

During the mid-1950s, an unlikely star stood alongside baseball standouts Mickey Mantle, Henry Aaron and Willie Mays--a slugger with a funny name and muscles so bulging that he had to cut the sleeves off his uniform to swing freely. Ted Kluszewski played little baseball in his youth, making a name for himself instead as a hard-hitting football player at Indiana University before showing potential on the diamond and being signed by the Cincinnati Reds. Between 1953 and 1956, no other player in major league baseball hit more home runs than Kluszewski. If not for a back injury, he might have gone down in major league history as one its greatest players. With detailed statistics from both his football and baseball careers, this biography chronicles the unusual odyssey that took Kluszewski to the big leagues and ultimately made him a ballgame icon in the 1950s.

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.

As a pharmacist turned lawyer turned master prohibition era bootlegger, George Remus is remembered as one of the notorious figures of the American prohibition. This biography tells the story of Remus' private life and public persona, focusing especially on the rise and fall of his bootlegging kingdom.

From spring training to the Cardinals' league championship, the events of the 1964 National League baseball season are presented. Virtual play-by-play breakdowns of certain games are discussed, alongside the statistics of the players and the jockeying of teams for pennant position.

Most biographies of Jim Thorpe (1888-1953) emphasize his Olympic glory and his remarkable abilities in track and football. Thorpe's 1912 gold medals in the decathalon and pentathalon and his talent on the gridiron rank him high among outstanding athletes of the twentieth century. That Thorpe also played brilliantly on the baseball diamond is an often overlooked facet of his career. This narrative of Thorpe's rise and fall in American sports pays particular attention to his time in the major and minor leagues, including his stormy relationship with New York Giants manager John McGraw and baseball's role in stripping Thorpe of his Olympic medals. By chronicling Thorpe's involvement in baseball, football and track concurrently, this profile offers a complete portrait of one of the most versatile athletes in sports history.