The Hollywood Stars were the most inventive team in baseball
history, known for their celebrity ownership and movie star
following during the Golden Age of Hollywood. In Lights, Camera,
Fastball: How the Hollywood Stars Changed Baseball, Dan Taylor
delivers a fascinating look at the Hollywood Stars and their
glorious twenty-year run in the Pacific Coast League. Led by Bob
Cobb, owner of the heralded Brown Derby restaurant and known more
famously as the creator of the Cobb salad, the Hollywood Stars took
professional baseball to a new and innovative level. The team
played in short pants, instigated rule changes, employed
cheerleaders and movie-star beauty queens, pioneered baseball on
television, eschewed trains for planes, and offered fans palatable
delicacies not before served at ballparks. On any given night,
Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, Barbara Stanwyck, Humphrey Bogart, and
dozens more cheered on their favorite team from the boxes and
grandstands of Gilmore Field. During the Hollywood Stars' history,
its celebrity owners pushed boundaries, challenged existing
baseball norms, infuriated rivals, and produced an imaginative
product, the likes of which the game had never before seen.
Featuring interviews with former players, Lights, Camera, Fastball
is an inside look at a team that was far ahead its time, whose
innovations are still seen in professional baseball today.
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