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Lou Gehrig: A Biography (Baseball's All-Time Greatest Hitters) - Hardcover

Buch 2 von 5: Baseball's All-Time Greatest Hitters

Kashatus, William C.

 
9780313328664: Lou Gehrig: A Biography (Baseball's All-Time Greatest Hitters)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0313328668 ISBN 13: 9780313328664
Verlag: Greenwood, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive games played stood for decades until Cal Ripken Jr. broke it in 1995. Most people remember Gehrig for this record, or for the disease that claimed his life (and now bears his name). But what many forget is how prolific a hitter he was. The son of German immigrants, Gehrig rose from inauspicious beginnings to become a scholar-athlete at Columbia University, and then moved to Major League Baseball, where he knocked in almost 2,000 runs and helped his team win six world championships. William Kashatus recounts the perserverance and poise of a life which ended tragically, yet heroically. Written in cooperation with George Pollack, the lawyer for the Gehrig estate, this biography provides a valuable addition to the study of an enduring American sports legend.

The final chapters analyze the creation of the player's legend through literature and film and also update the reader on the on-going fight against ALS.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

William C. Kashatus is a professional historian at the Chester County Historical Society in West Chester, Pennsylvania. He is also a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to his many books about baseball history, he is a regular contributor to the Philadelphia Daily News.

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Verlag
Greenwood
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0313328668
ISBN 13 
9780313328664
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
166
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