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Informationen zum Autor 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. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 16. The Underdog Arises 17. Good but Not Lucky 18. A Lost Season 19. Free Agency in 1924? 20. The Temperamental Spitballist 21. Back Where I Belong 22. Clouds Approaching 23. The Season That Wasn’t 24. Hope Springs Eternal 25. The Comeback 26. Moment in the Sun 27. The Master at Work 28. Promises and Secrets 29. A Star Surfaces and Crashes 30. A Day of Death and Rebirth Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index...