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Rex Barney's Thank Youuuu for 50 Years in Baseball from Brooklyn to Baltimore Hardback - 1993
by Rex Barney
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- Title Rex Barney's Thank Youuuu for 50 Years in Baseball from Brooklyn to Baltimore
- Author Rex Barney
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 280
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Schiffer Publishing, Centreville, MD
- Date 1993
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780870334436
- ISBN 9780870334436 / 0870334433
- Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Dimensions 9.26 x 6.32 x 1.05 in (23.52 x 16.05 x 2.67 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Baseball players - United States - Biography, Sportscasters - United States - Biography
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92044664
- Dewey Decimal Code B
From the rear cover
September 26, 1981, millions of viewers watched on NBC television as Nolan Ryan pitched his fifth no-hitter. Late in the game, commentator Tony Kubek asked Joe Garagiola, "Did you ever see anybody throw faster than Nolan Ryan?" Without hesitating, Joe replied, "Sure. Rex Barney". Joe Garagiola contributes the foreword for this story of Rex Barney, the man who threw faster than Feller, faster than Ryan; whose pitching career sped by quicker than his fastball because he could not control it. Barney became a legend as part of the most exciting era of the Brooklyn Dodgers - 1943 to 1951 - when Jackie Robinson came in and Leo Durocher switched to the hated New York Giants. Two months after Leo's departure, Barney no-hit the Giants in the Polo Grounds. In his own inimitable style, Rex tells the story of his battle to control his fastball and, later, his own life, and his struggles to overcome illness and a near-fatal stroke. Along the way, Rex takes the reader into dugouts, clubhouses, and broadcast booths to meet many of the managers, stars, and scrubinis he has known during his fifty years in baseball.