Willie Stargell : A Life in Baseball

Garland, Frank

McFarland & Co Inc（2013/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 272 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780786465347
• DDC分類 796.357092

Full Description

This book brings to life one of baseball's greatest sluggers, Willie Stargell. It examines the factors that shaped him as a man growing up in the tumultuous racial times of the 1950s and '60s, and then recreates the major moments in his Hall of Fame baseball career. His various endeavors during the post-playing days are fully explored as well.

Interviews with more than 80 people--family members, childhood friends, teammates, opponents, front office workers and others--combined with dozens of newspaper and magazine articles shed light on the iconic patriarch of one of baseball's last great "families," the 1970s-era Pittsburgh Pirates.

Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

 1—In the Beginning

 2—Life in the Bushes

 3—The Show

 4—Becoming a Force

 5—Changing of the Guard

 6—We Are Family

 7—Twilight Time

 8—The Bombs and the Victims

 9—A Whole New Ballgame

10—The Hall Calls—and So Does Home

11—"We Kiss You Goodbye"

12—The Real Family

Epilogue

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index