Reggie Jackson - The Life and Thunderous Career of Baseball's Mr. October

Informationen zum Autor Dayn Perry wrote for ESPN.com and Baseball Prospectus before becoming a baseball columnist with FOXSports.com. He is the author of Winners: How Good Baseball Teams Become Great Ones, and he lives with his family in Chicago, Illinois. Klappentext An outspoken iconoclast whose disregard for convention made him as many enemies as friends among the colorful characters of the game, Reggie Jackson was a cantankerous upstart full of swagger with a fearsome talent to match. The Baseball Hall of Famer earned the name “Mr. October” for the crucial clutch hitting that led his teams to the World Series six times and won him two series MVP awards. But most people don't really know the man behind the bat—a great athlete struggling to find his place in the world, at home, and in the sport that made him a star. Now, in the first biography of Reggie Jackson in more than twenty-five years—and the first to cover his entire career as a player—FOXSports.com columnist Dayn Perry provides an intimate, honest, and never-before-seen glimpse into the life and times of one of baseball's all-time greats. Zusammenfassung “Dayn Perry, a damn fine writer, brings an insightful, fresh analysis to the career of Mr. October.” —Peter Golenbock, author of George: The Poor Little Rich Boy Who Built the Yankee Empire   FoxSports.com baseball analyst and author of Winners: How Good Baseball Teams Become Great Ones, Dayn Perry brings us Reggie Jackson in all his glory—a thrilling, in-depth biography of the controversial New York Yankee slugger. A monumental sports story filled with such stellar baseball names as George Steinbrenner, Billy Martin, Jim “Catfish” Hunter, Thurman Munson, and Bucky Dent, Reggie Jackson is the first to cover the entire career of the colorful, outspoken athlete whom The Sporting News listed as one of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players of all time. ...

About the author

Dayn Perry wrote for ESPN.com and Baseball Prospectus before becoming a baseball columnist with FOXSports.com. He is the author of Winners: How Good Baseball Teams Become Great Ones, and he lives with his family in Chicago, Illinois.

Product details

• Authors: Dayn Perry, Perry Dayn
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.06.2011
• EAN: 9780061562372
• ISBN: 978-0-06-156237-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Sport; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Baseball, History, Biography: general, Memoirs, history of sport, Biography: sport, Sociology: sport and leisure, General and world history, Travel and holiday, Contains explicit or offensive material or content, Travel guides: activity holidays, Cycling: general and touring, HUMOR: Topic / Travel, HUMOR: Topic / Sports, SPORTS & RECREATION: History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Sports, SPORTS & RECREATION: Baseball / History, TRAVEL: Special Interest / Sports, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Rich & Famous, TRAVEL: Special Interest / Bicycling, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Memoirs