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Few players in the history of baseball suffered as many professional setbacks as Roy Sievers (1926-2017). After an award winning rookie season in 1949, he endured a year and a half-long slump, a nearly career-ending injury and a major position change--all from 1950 through 1953.
Traded in 1954, he prevailed and became one of the most feared hitters of the decade, the Washington Senators' home run leader and the biggest gate attraction since Walter Johnson.
Drawing on original interviews with Sievers and teammates, this first full-length biography covers the life and career of a first baseman who overcame adversity to restore a dispirited franchise.
List of contents
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Preface
Foreword by Bob Wolff
Introduction
¿1.¿Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis
¿2.¿"A pair of spikes, and they were too big!"
¿3.¿"I thought, hell, this is easy!"
¿4.¿The Sophomore Jinx
¿5.¿Bad Breaks and Small Wonders
¿6.¿Big Bat and Short Fences
¿7.¿"The sweetest right-handed swing in baseball"
¿8.¿The World Is His Oyster
¿9.¿The Times, They Are A-Changin'
10.¿The Best Is Yet to Come
11.¿Coming Home
Epilogue
Appendix: Achievements, Awards and Highlights
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Paul Scimonelli, retired teacher and musician, had a successful music career for more than 60 years. He has written numerous articles for music journals and his dissertation on the history of the Catholic University of America's Benjamin T. Rome School of Music is a widely read resource in the university library's database. He lives in Woodstock, Maryland.
