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Smoky Joe Wood - The Biography of a Baseball Legend (Paperback)
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Smoky Joe Wood - The Biography of a Baseball Legend (Paperback)
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WINNER OF THE 2014 SEYMOUR MEDAL sponsored by the Society for
American Baseball Research and finalist for 2014 SABR Larry Ritter
Award Though his pitching career lasted only a few seasons, Howard
Ellsworth "Smoky Joe" Wood was one of the most dominating figures
in baseball history-a man many consider the best baseball player
who is not in the Hall of Fame. About his fastball, Hall of Fame
pitcher Walter Johnson once said: "Listen, mister, no man alive can
throw harder than Smoky Joe Wood." Smoky Joe Wood chronicles the
singular life befitting such a baseball legend. Wood got his start
impersonating a female on the National Bloomer Girls team. A
natural athlete, he pitched for the Boston Red Sox at eighteen, won
twenty-one games and threw a no-hitter at twenty-one, and had a
34-5 record plus three wins in the 1912 World Series, for a 1.91
ERA, when he was just twenty-two. Then in 1913 Wood suffered
devastating injuries to his right hand and shoulder that forced him
to pitch in pain for two more years. After sitting out the 1916
season, he came back as a converted outfielder and played another
five years for the Cleveland Indians before retiring to coach the
Yale University baseball team. With details culled from interviews
and family archives, this biography, the first of this rugged
player of the Deadball Era, brings to life one of the genuine
characters of baseball history.
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