Sizzler - George Sisler, Baseball''s Forgotten Great

Informationen zum Autor Rick Huhn , an attorney and member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), lives in Westerville, Ohio. In August 2001, he was encouraged by George Sisler, Jr., to write his late father's story and was given the enthusiastic cooperation of the Sisler family in writing this biography. Klappentext "Gorgeous George” Sisler began his major-league baseball career in 1915 with the St. Louis Browns. During his sixteen years in the majors, he played with such baseball luminaries as Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Rogers Hornsby. By including excerpts from Sisler's unpublished memoir, as well as references to the national and international events that took place during his heyday, this reveals the full picture of this family man and his career.

Product details

• Authors: Rick Huhn
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 14
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.10.2013
• EAN: 9780826220134
• ISBN: 978-0-8262-2013-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Sports & American Culture; Sports and American Culture Series; Sports and American Culture; Sports and American Culture Series; Sports & American Culture
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Ball sport; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies