Urban Shocker

Klappentext Steve Steinberg is a baseball historian and coauthor with Lyle Spatz of The Colonel and Hug: The Partnership that Transformed the New York Yankees (Nebraska, 2015), research award winner from the Society for American Baseball Research, and 1921: The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York (Nebraska, 2010), winner of the Seymour Medal. Zusammenfassung Urban Shocker was a fiercely competitive and colourful pitcher! a spitballer who had many famous battles with Babe Ruth before returning to the Yankees. Delving into Shocker's baseball career! his love of the game! and his battle with heart disease! Steve Steinberg shows the dominant and courageous force that he was.

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Steve Steinberg is a baseball historian and coauthor with Lyle Spatz of The Colonel and Hug: The Partnership that Transformed the New York Yankees (Nebraska, 2015), research award winner from the Society for American Baseball Research, and 1921: The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York (Nebraska, 2010), winner of the Seymour Medal.

Zusammenfassung
Urban Shocker was a fiercely competitive and colourful pitcher, a spitballer who had many famous battles with Babe Ruth before returning to the Yankees. Delving into Shocker's baseball career, his love of the game, and his battle with heart disease, Steve Steinberg shows the dominant and courageous force that he was.

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List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments

1. Passing By and Drawn In
2. Midwest Connections
3. Sandlots and Love of the Game
4. An Emerging Star in the Minors
5. False Start
6. A Magical Summer on the Island
7. Motor City Mischief
8. The Returned Prodigal and the Coming Phenom
9. The Dream Team
10. The First Trade
11. Love and War and a Little Baseball
12. A Summer to Remember
13. The End of an Era
14. Challenging the Great One
    15 The Showdowns Continue
15. The Underdog Arises
16. Good but Not Lucky
17. A Lost Season
18. Free Agency in 1924?
19. The Temperamental Spitballist
20. Back Where I Belong
21. Clouds Approaching
22. The Season That Wasn’t
23. Hope Springs Eternal
24. The Comeback
25. Moment in the Sun
26. The Master at Work
27. Promises and Secrets
28. A Star Surfaces and Crashes
29. A Day of Death and Rebirth
    Epilogue
    Notes
    Bibliography
    Index