Baseball heaven : up close and personal, what it was really like in the major leagues /
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2024]
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Table of Contents:
- Elden Auker : "I'd like to see you throw directly underhand."
- Elden Auker : Ole Diz, Mickey Cochrane, and Hammering Hank
- Elden Auker : Joe Cronin drives him crazy
- Johnny Pesky : Pesky holds the ball
- Albert Happy Chandler : "I will allow Jackie Robinson to play for Brooklyn"
- Del Webb : "Would you be interested in buying the Yankees?"
- Del Webb : Stengel and Weiss and victory
- Ralph Branca : the ace of the staff
- Ralph Branca : the shot heard round the world
- Bobby Thomson : the shot heard round the world
- Donald Hall : my love of the Brooklyn Dodgers
- Elston Howard : for the Yankees, the first
- Hot Rod Kanehl : Casey's pet
- Rod Kanehl : I was an original Met
- Dock Ellis : a life on the edge
- Dock Ellis : cocaine and Yankee turbulence
- Gary Carter : the missing ingredient
- Gary Carter : the ball goes through Buckner's legs