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The Last Icon: Tom Seaver and His Times - Hardcover

Travers, Steven

 
9781589796607: The Last Icon: Tom Seaver and His Times
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1589796608 ISBN 13: 9781589796607
Verlag: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

In early 1969, New York City and all it represented was in disarray: politically, criminally, and athletically. But while Simon and Garfunkel lamented the absence of a sports icon like Joe DiMaggio, a modern Lancelot rode forth to lead the New York Mets to heights above and beyond all sports glory.

This book tells the complete, unvarnished story of the great Tom Seaver, that rarest of all American heroes, the New York Sports Icon. In a city that produces not mere mortals but sports gods, Seaver represented the last of a breed. His deeds, his times, his town—it was part of a vanishing era, an era of innocence. In 1969, six years after John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Seaver and the Mets were the last gasp of idealism before free agency, Watergate, and cynicism. Here is the story of “Tom Terrific” of the “Amazin’ Mets,” a man worthy of a place alongside DiMaggio, Ruth, Mantle, and Namath in the pantheon of New York idols.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Steven Travers is a USC graduate and ex-professional baseball player. He is the author of the best-selling Barry Bonds: Baseball's Superman, nominated for a Casey Award (Best Baseball Book of 2002). He is also the author of The USC Trojans: College Football's All-Time Greatest Dynasty and One Night, Two Teams: Alabama vs. USC and the Game that Changed the Nation. He lives in San Anselmo, California.

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Verlag
Taylor Trade Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1589796608
ISBN 13 
9781589796607
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
306
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