1921 - The Yankees, Giants, Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York

Informationen zum Autor Lyle Spatz is the author of many books, including Bad Bill Dahlen: The Rollicking Life and Times of an Early Baseball Star and Yankees Coming, Yankees Going: New York Yankee Player Transactions, 1903 through 1999. Steve Steinberg is the author of Baseball in St. Louis, 1900-1925 and numerous articles on early twentieth-century baseball, including feature articles for the annual New York Yankees official yearbooks. Charles C. Alexander is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Ohio University. He is the author of several baseball books, including Spoke: A Biography of Tris Speaker and John McGraw (available in a Bison Books edition). Klappentext At the dawn of the roaring twenties, baseball was struggling to overcome two of its darkest moments: the death of a player during a Major League game and the revelations of the 1919 Black Sox scandal. At this critical juncture for baseball, two teams emerged to fight for the future of the game. They were also battling for the hearts and minds of New Yorkers as the city rose in dramatic fashion to the pinnacle of the baseball world. 1921 captures this crucial moment in the history of baseball, telling the story of a season that pitted the New York Yankees against their Polo Grounds landlords and hated rivals, John McGraw's Giants, in the first all-New York Series and resulted in the first American League pennant for the now-storied Yankees' franchise. Lyle Spatz and Steve Steinberg recreate the drama that featured the charismatic Babe Ruth in his assault on baseball records in the face of McGraw's disdain for the American League and the Ruth-led slugging style. Their work evokes the early 1920s with the words of renowned sportswriters such as Damon Runyon, Grantland Rice, and Heywood Broun. With more than fifty photographs, the book offers a remarkably vivid picture of the colorful characters, the crosstown rivalry, and the incomparable performances that made this season a classic. Zusammenfassung 1921 tells the story of a season that pitted the New York Yankees against their Polo Grounds landlords and hated rivals, John McGraw's Giants, in the first all New York City World Series. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations   Foreword by Charles C. Alexander    Preface     Acknowledgments    Part 1. The Preseason1. Prelude to the World Series      2. Baseball Confronts the Black Sox Scandal     3. The Shady Side of Baseball's Flagship Franchise    4. Ruppert and Huston Arrive, Ready to "Go to the Limit"    5. "You can't compare him with anybody else. He's Babe Ruth."     6. The Giants Fail to Get Rogers Hornsby  7. Ed Barrow Comes to New York      8. "We fear only Cleveland"   9. "I do not fear any club in the National League"     Part 2. The Season10. "My job is to knock em a mile"    11. "This home run business is being carried too far" 12. The Trials and Tribulations of John McGraw  13. Cobb and Speaker Await as the Yankees Head West   14. "The Yanks are the best worst team in either league"    15. Setbacks on the Road and in the Commissioner's Office   16. The Giants Solidify Their Lineup      17. "You can't play your outfielders in the middle of the next block"   18. "Lay off Huggins and hope nothing happens to the Babe"  19. A Terrible August for the Giants . . . So Far     20. "Let's go get em while the getting's good"    21. "It is no time in which to count McGraw and his men out of any race"      22. Ascent to First and Then a Demoralizing Loss      23. "It was the greatest game ever played"      24. The Giants Clinch and the Repercussions Get Ugly  25. A Pennant for the Yankees, At Last     Part 3. The Postseason26. Prelude to the World Series, Part 2   27. Game 1, Wednesday, October 5: "Who said the Yanks were slow and clumsy and dull?"     28. Game 2, Thursday, October 6: The Yankees Again Win with an Inside Game    29. Game 3, Friday, October 7: The Giants' Offense Comes Alive    30. Game 4, Sunday, Octobe...

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• Authors: Lyle Spatz, Lyle Steinberg Spatz, Lyle/ Steinberg Spatz, Steve Steinberg
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2012
• EAN: 9780803239999
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-3999-9
• No. of pages: 544
• Subject: Guides > Sport > Ball sport