Wrong Side of the Wall: The Life of Blackie Schwamb, the Greatest Prison Baseball Player of All Time - Hardcover

Stone, Eric

9781592284399: Wrong Side of the Wall: The Life of Blackie Schwamb, the Greatest Prison Baseball Player of All Time

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ISBN 10: 1592284396 ISBN 13: 9781592284399

Verlag: The Lyons Press, 2005

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"Baseball rarely edges into "noir," but this compelling biography by Eric Stone reads as if it had been filmed in black and white in the golden age of film noir Hollywood. Mesmerized by the waste of it all, yet tempted to hope because of his talent, we follow the story of a brilliant but flawed player, Blackie Schwamb, whose career was derailed through the tragic consequences of gangland connections."--Kevin Starr, University Professor in History, University of Southern California, California State Librarian Emeritus, author of Coast of Dreams: "California on the Edge, 1990-2003" and the other six volumes of the "Americans and the California Dream" Series "Blackie Schwamb pitched in the American League for the St. Louis Browns. Blackie Schwamb pitched in Folsom and San Quentin . . . You'll finish Wrong Side of the Wall asking yourself, 'What if . . .'"--Joe Garagiola, former major league ballplayer, radio and television broadcaster, and author of "Baseball is a Funny Game" "As a ten-year-old St. Louis Browns' fan, I saw the apple-cheek side of baseball and loved it. Eric Stone's look at the dark underside is eerie, fascinating, and impossible to put down."--Win Blevins, author of "Beauty for Ashes," and numerous other award winning historical fiction and non-fiction books

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An account of Ralph Blackie Schwamb, one of the best baseball prospects ever to come out of Los Angeles, who became the greatest player in the history of prison baseball.

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VerlagThe Lyons Press
Erscheinungsdatum2005
ISBN 10 1592284396
ISBN 13 9781592284399
EinbandTapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten310

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