Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend
by Gay, Timothy M
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0803222068
- ISBN 13
- 9780803222069
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US: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A three-time World Series winner and an early inductee into the Hall of Fame, lauded by Babe Ruth as the finest defensive outfielder he ever saw and described as "perfection on the field" by the great Grantland Rice, Tris Speaker enjoys the peculiar distinction of being one of the least-known legends of baseball history. Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend is the first book to tell the full story of Speaker's turbulent life and to document in sharp detail the grit and glory of his pivotal role in baseball's dead-ball era. Playing for the Boston Red Sox and the Cleveland Indians in the early part of the twentieth century, Tris "Spoke" Speaker put up numbers that amaze us even today: his record for career doubles-792-may never be approached, let alone broken. Tris Speaker explores the colorful life behind the statistics, introducing readers to a complex and contradictory Texan whose cowboy mentality never left him as he brawled his way through two decades in the big leagues. Speaker's career put him in the company of Ty Cobb and Christy Mathewson, Shoeless Joe Jackson and Honus Wagner, and in describing it Timothy M. Gay gives a rousing account of some of the best baseball ever played-and some of the darkest moments that ever tainted a game and hastened the end of a career. His four years of research on Speaker unearthed a document that suggests that cheating induced by gambling was far more widespread in early baseball than officials have acknowledged. Gay'.
Synopsis
Previously published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2005. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Infinity Books Japan (JP)
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- Title
- Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball Legend
- Author
- Gay, Timothy M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0803222068
- ISBN 13
- 9780803222069
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 2006
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