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Product Identifiers

PublisherMcfarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers

ISBN-100786407867

ISBN-139780786407866

eBay Product ID (ePID)1733538

Product Key Features

Number of Pages327 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameRube Waddell : the Zany, Brilliant Life of a Strikeout Artist

SubjectBaseball / History, Baseball / General, General

Publication Year2000

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorAlan H. Levy

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight15.2 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN00-30474

Reviews"a most compelling, valuable addition"-- Nine ; "the saga of the A's star hurler of the early 1900s"-- USA Today Sports Weekly ; "this is the study of a man and his times"-- Today's Librarian., "a most compelling, valuable addition"- Nine ; "the saga of the A's star hurler of the early 1900s"- USA Today Sports Weekly ; "this is the study of a man and his times"- Today's Librarian.

Dewey Edition21

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal796.357/092 B

Table Of ContentTable of Contents Acknowledgments Pregame 1. Throwing Rocks at the Crows 2. A Cup of Coffee and Off to College 3. Wake Up, Mr. Clarke, I'm Here 4. A Second Cup of Coffee 5. Tiger Rube 6. The Senator from Ohio 7. The Prodigal 8. My New Kentucky Home 9. Back Home 10. Punxsutawney Rube 11. Beer Town 12. Back to the Burgh 13. That Poor Pig 14. World Series 15. Get Him the Hell Off My Ball Team 16. Life in the Big City 17. The Theater Type 18. Last Place 19. The Great Mathewson 20. A Big Toad 21. Loo-Loo Land 22. The Planets Shrink in Fear 23. Goodbye, John McGraw 24. A Blaze to Glory 25. If He Does That Again, I'll... 26. Animal Crackers 27. A Rocky Start 28. Summer of Chaos 29. Unhand That Woman! 30. Coon Hunts and Straight Baseball 31. The Cy Young Series 32. Mardi Gras 33. When the Breaks Fall Your Way 34. Cy Young Again 35. Pennant Drive 36. A Fatal Straw Hat 37. Usual Spring High Jinks 38. Bum Thumb 39. Hitless Wonders 40. Mule Fritters 41. Turkish Bath 42. Oh, That Ty Cobb! 43. Divorce, Rube Style 44. McAleer's Gamble 45. Rube's Gonna Pitch 46. He Who Laughs Last 47. The Browns in a Pennant Race 48. Winter Games 49. Disappointment and Pathos 50. A Fateful Day in Boston 51. New Jersey 52. The Minors 27153. Rube on the Mississippi 54. Minnesota Rube 55. Levees and Whiskey 56. Floods 57. The Crease in His Nose Postgame Rube Waddell's Lifetime Statistics Bibliography Index

SynopsisThis biography traces the early life of George Edward Waddell in western Pennsylvania, the fits and starts of his first years in professional baseball, his big years with the A's, and his subsequent fade into obscurity and his early death., George Edward "Rube" Waddell was one of the zaniest characters ever to play baseball. The legendary Connie Mack, who saw quite a few cards during his nearly seven decade stint in the majors, once observed that no other screwball he ever saw could hold a candle to Rube. Mack also said that Rube's curveball was the best he'd ever seen. Indeed, Waddell was one of the greatest pitchers in the history of the game. Rube won 191 games in 13 seasons, had four straight 20-win seasons for Mack and the Philadelphia A's, and claimed six consecutive strikeout titles. In 1904 he struck out 349 batters, a record that held for six decades. This biography traces his early life in western Pennsylvania, the fits and starts of his first years in professional baseball, his big years with the A's, and his subsequent fade into obscurity and his early death in a sanatorium on April Fool's Day, 1914.

LC Classification NumberGV865.W23 2000