Jefferson McFarland & Company 2015 Trade paperback New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Contains: Halftones, black & white.

ISBN10: 078649901X, ISBN13: 9780786499014, [publisher: McFarland] Softcover
[Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2015]
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ISBN10: 078649901X, ISBN13: 9780786499014, [publisher: McFarland] Softcover New
[Redhill, SURRE, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2015]

pp. 277 . Papeback. New. ISBN 078649901X 9780786499014 [US]

ISBN10: 078649901X, ISBN13: 9780786499014, [publisher: Mcfarland And Company, Inc.] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Indiana boasts a rich baseball tradition, with 10 native sons enshrined in Cooperstown. This biographical dictionary provides a close look at the lives of all 364 Hoosier big leaguers, who include New York City's first baseball superstar; the first rookie pitcher to win three games in a World Series; the man who caught most of Cy Young's record 511 career wins; one of the game's first star relievers; the player who held the record for consecutive games played before Lou Gehrig; an obscure infielder mentioned in Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic strip; baseball's only one-legged pitcher; Indiana's first Mr. Basketball, who became one of baseball's greatest pinch-hitters; the first African American to play for the Cincinnati Reds; the only pitcher to throw a perfect game in the World Series; the skipper of the 1969 'Miracle Mets'; the pitcher for whom a ground-breaking surgical procedure is named; and the only two men to have played in both the World Series and the Final Four of the NCAA Basketball Tournament.
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