Sleeper Cars and Flannel Uniforms - A Lifetime of Memories from Striking Out the Babe to Teeing It Up with the President

Kick back and take a trip in time to meet some of baseball's all-time great personalities, with one of them as your own personal guide. Sleeper Cars and Flannel Uniforms brings baseball legends to life through the eyes of Elden Auker, a submarine-style pitcher in the American League from 1933 through 1942. Auker, one of the last living pitchers to have faced Babe Ruth, teamed with baseball greats Ted Williams, Hank Greenberg, Jimmie Foxx, Charlier Gehringer, and Mickey Cochrane, played against the likes of Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Dizzy Dean, and Bob Feller, and struck up off-the-field friendships with many of them. He takes readers behind the scenes and into the clubhouse for stories like the time Babe Ruth pummeled a sticky-fingered roommate who later went on to have a Hall of Fame career of his own.

About the author

Elden Auker and his wife Mildred make their home in Vero Beach, Fl. An All-Big Six selection for Kansas State in football, basketball and baseball, Auker won 130 games in 10 major league seasons (1933-42) and pitched in the World Series for the Detroit Tigers in 1934 and 1935.

Product details

• Authors: Elden Auker, Tom Keegan
• Publisher: Triumph Books (IL)
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2001
• EAN: 9781892049254
• ISBN: 978-1-892049-25-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 221 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Sport > Ball sport; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies