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Download or read book Pitchin' Man written by Paige Satchel and published by Gray & Company, Publishers. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first autobiography by Leroy “Satchel” Paige, one of the best and most colorful pitchers in the history of professional baseball. Based on interviews conducted by Cleveland sports writer Hal Lebovitz, this book was first released shortly after Paige joined the Indians in 1948 (days after his 42nd birthday and after 22 years playing with various Negro League, minor league and Puerto Rican League teams). Told in a casual first-person style, Paige's stories provide a snapshot from a bygone era of Major League baseball. Paige tells how he began his pitching career by throwing rocks (”We had a pretty rough gang down on the South Side of Mobile, near the Bay, where I was born and raised”). He describes his early years in baseball, starting at age 17 with the Chattanooga Black Lookouts in 1926, and addresses the controversy over varying claims about his age and the source of his nickname. He talks about ballplayers he had known, in particular Josh Gibson (”the best of all”) of the Pittsburgh Crawfords and Homestead Grays, and Bob Feller (with whom Paige barnstormed years before joining the Indians). Includes a foreword by Indians owner Bill Veeck and a note from Indians player-manager Lou Boudreau. With Paige's help, the Indians went on to win the 1948 World Series.
Download or read book Pitchin' Man written by Leroy Paige and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pitchin' Man written by Leroy S. Paige and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonded Leather binding
Download or read book Pitchin' Man written by Satchel Paige and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Pitchin' Man written by LeRoy Satchel Paige and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-19 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1948 LeRoy "Satchel" Paige became a Major League baseball star. In truth, he had always been a star, just not like this. This was his dream come true. For twenty-two years he had been a Major League baseball legend, but in another venue. His venue had been in the Negro Leagues and his "America" was the segregated one. Now all that changed, and he was a star on a White Major League baseball team, the Cleveland Indians. The 1947 the sudden integration of baseball caught everyone by surprise. Those who controlled professional sports had held the line against integration since 1884. Today's baseball fans cannot imagine an all White Major League or for that matter an all White NFL, NBA or NHL. Well, perhaps the last one can be imaged, but for sixty-two years it was that way. Sports were all White, all the time, and it seemed like it would go on like that forever. Most fans knew it was wrong and wanted integration, but the strong southern racist mind set stood firm. It had to change and finally in 1944, the "old turkey neck buzzard" Kennesaw Mountain Landis "kicked the bucket." His death was a good thing. Now nobody was left to keep Blacks out of Big League Baseball. No great parties of celebration were held, but people of good will started to work immediately to force the sports world to grow up. By the end of 1947, three Blacks were on Major League rosters and many more were in the minor leagues. So on his 42nd birthday, LeRoy "Satchel" Paige became the oldest rookie in baseball history. He was the "toast of the town" and that town, of course, was Cleveland, Ohio. In the Black world, Satchel Paige was a pitching legend. In the White world folks did not know how good he really was, but many White major league players knew exactly how good he was. That was because many top stars had played against him in exhibition games.
Download or read book The California Culturist written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Men and Horses written by Ross Santee and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis When to Stop the Cheering? by : Brian Carroll
Download or read book When to Stop the Cheering? written by Brian Carroll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-11-29 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Finalist for the 2007 Seymour Medal of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).* *Winner of the 2007 Robert Peterson Book Award of the Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American Baseball* When to Stop the Cheering? documents the close and often conflicted relationship between the black press and black baseball beginning with the first Negro professional league of substance, the Negro National League, which started in 1920, and finishing with the dissolution of the Negro American League in 1957. When to Stop the Cheering? examines the multidimensional relationship the black newspapers had with baseball, including their treatment of and relationships with baseball officials, team owners, players and fans. Over time, these relationships changed, resulting in shifts in coverage that could be described as moving from brotherhood to paternalism, then from paternalism to nostalgic tribute and even regret.
Download or read book Western Electric News written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Out of the Park written by John Passfield and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we go to a baseball stadium and cheer a person like Babe Ruth for hitting the ball harder, higher, further and more often than the other players, we are cheering him as our representative. We cheer people of exceptional accomplishment whose achievements are so highly visible and so obviously measurable because we, too, are faced with the complexity of the lives that we live and are challenged to perform feats of heroic proportions just to be able to say that we have lived our lives well when we come to the end. In the novel, Babe Ruth says, There aint nothin like a game of baseball. There aint nothin like a beautiful summer day, with the clouds light and fluffy and the sun on the back of your shoulders and a nice liftin breeze comin down onto the field from out of the stands. The man who feels this way about the game he loves is a man who faces enormous challenges, digs deep down inside himself and finds whatever is needed in order to triumph in the game of life. This makes him a fitting representative for us all; we all hit spectacular home runs in out own quiet ways.
Book Synopsis The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce by : Ambrose Bierce
Download or read book The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce written by Ambrose Bierce and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treasury of ninety-three short works includes horror stories, realistic narratives of war, and tall tales of the old West
Download or read book Sporting Lives written by James W. Pipkin and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines autobiographies by athletes such as Wilt Chamberlain, Babe Ruth, Martina Navratilova, and Dennis Rodman, and analyzes common themes and recurring patterns in the accounts of their lives and sporting experiences"--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis London Labour and the London Poor by : Henry Mayhew
Download or read book London Labour and the London Poor written by Henry Mayhew and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A seminal study of London street life in the middle of the [19th] century ... [with] details of Victorian lower-class life, such as what kinds of foods were sold on the streets, how financial transactions with street-sellers were conducted, and how vendors 'cried' their wares ... The study had its origin in a series of eighty-two articles, published from October 1849 through December 1850, entitled 'Labour and the poor', in the Morning Chronicle ..."--Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Book Synopsis The Phillies Reader by : Richard Orodenker
Download or read book The Phillies Reader written by Richard Orodenker and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic history of this legendary team.
Download or read book American Illustrated Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
