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With 363 victories, Warren Spahn is the winningest lefty in
baseball history. Over 21 years, he won 20 or more games 13 times,
was a 17-time All Star, won a Cy Young-award, then, of course, was
elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Spahn was also a war
hero, serving in World War II and awarded the Purple Heart. To say
Spahn lived a storied life is an understatement. In Warren Spahn,
author Lew Freedman tells the story of this incredible lefty. Known
for his supremely high leg kick, Spahn became one of the greatest
pitchers in baseball history. However, the road wasn't as easy as
it would seem. Struggling in his major-league debut at age twenty,
manager Casey Stengel demoted the young left. It would be four
years before Spahn would return to the diamond, as he received a
calling of a different kind--one from his country. Enlisting in the
Army, Spahn would serve with distinction, seeing action in the
Battle of the Bulge and the Ludendorff Bridge, and was awarded a
battlefield commission, along with a Purple Heart. Upon his return
to the game, he would take the league by storm. Spahn dominated for
over two decades, spending twenty years with the Braves (both
Boston and Milwaukee), as well as a season with the New York Mets
and San Francisco Giants. Pitching into his mid-forties, he would
throw two no-hitters at the advanced ages of thirty-nine and forty.
From his early days in Buffalo and young career, through his time
and the military and all the way to the 1948 Braves and "Spahn and
Sain and Pray for Rain," author Lew Freedman leaves no stone
unturned in sharing the incredible life of this pitching icon, who
is still considered the greatest left-handed pitcher to ever play
the game.
The Whalers are the only football team above the Arctic Circle: 330
north to be exact, a place with no grass, no trees, and plenty of
permafrost. Of the 44 Eskimo, Tongan, Samoan, Asian-American,
African-American and Caucasian teenagers who signed up for this
experiment, only four had ever played organized football before.
Seasoned journalist Lew Freedman captures this inspiring story.
Hoyt Wilhelm's intriguing baseball career lasted two decades. A
veteran of the Battle of the Bulge, the eight-time All-Star from
Huntersville, North Carolina was a standout for the New York
Giants, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago White Sox and Atlanta Braves,
though he did not reach the majors until he was nearly 30.He
pitched a no-hitter as a starter, won as many as 15 games a season,
was the first reliever to win more than 100 games and save more
than 200, and broke Cy Young's record for most games on the mound.
Along the way, he relied almost entirely on his baffling skill with
a rare weapon of choice--the knuckleball. This first full-length
biography covers the life and career of the first relief pitcher in
the Hall of Fame.
Loyola University Chicago was ahead of its time when racial matters
were forefront in a long overdue revolution in civil rights. The
Ramblers of the 1962-1963 NCAA college basketball season were
pioneers in race relations in sport, though most of the time they
were simply playing the sport they loved. When the NCAA tournament
began in March, the Ramblers engaged in a series for the ages,
daring to be the first NCAA Division I school to play five black
athletes on the court at once and capturing the most prestigious
title in college basketball at a time when states below the
Mason-Dixon line still had laws on the books preventing black and
white athletes from mixing even in pick-up games. Records were set,
rivals faced and one of the most famous and significant contests in
college basketball playoff history played out in what incidentally
became a model showcase for race relations. Nearly every time the
Ramblers took the court, the game was unique in its magnitude.
Relying significantly on exclusive interviews with surviving
players, now in their seventies, Lew Freedman chronicles the entire
journey, the adventure of the season that bound tight for a
lifetime the group of men who lived through it.
The quarterback pass is one of the leading offensive components of
today's National Football League and college football's top level
of play. This was not always the case. In early American football,
the strategy focused entirely on advancing the ball one running
play at a time, with the player tucking the then-roundish ball on
his hip and sprinting ahead until tackled by a swarm of defenders.
The revolution that transformed the sport began in 1906, when
passing was first legalized. The passing weapon made the game
safer, altered strategy, turned the quarterback into a key
offensive player, and made possible the high-scoring games of
today. Lew Freedman traces football's passing game from its
inception to the present, telling the tale through the stories of
the quarterbacks whose arms carried (and threw) the changes
forward. Freedman relies especially on the biography of
i?1/2Slingin' Sammyi?1/2 BaughaEURO"who hailed from Sweetwater,
TexasaEURO"as a framework. Baugh, perhaps the greatest all-around
football player in history, came along at just the right time to
elevate the passing game to unprecedented importance in the eyes of
the sports world.
William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846-1917) rose from humble origins
in Iowa to become one of the most famous and most photographed
people in the world. He became a leading scout during the American
Indian Wars, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, and a
renowned show business fixture whose traveling Wild West
exhibitions played to millions of spectators the world over for 30
years. He hobnobbed with presidents, kings, queens and European
heads of state, befriending many legendary individuals of the West,
from General George Armstrong Custer and Sitting Bull to Wild Bill
Hickok and Annie Oakley. Aside from these achievements, Cody's most
important legacy may be how he shaped the world's enduring views of
the American West through his shows, which he considered to be
educational events rather than entertainment. This biography is a
fresh look at the life of Buffalo Bill.
An early celebrity pitcher, Denton "Cy" Young (1867-1955)
established supreme standards on the mound. A small-town Ohio
farmer made good, he set Major League pitching records in the late
19th and early 20th centuries that will likely last forever. The
winner of 511 games - nearly one hundred more than the
second-ranked hurler - Young pitched the first perfect game of the
modern era, as well as three no-hitters. His talents helped
establish the American League in 1901. Among the Hall of Fame's
first inductees, he remained a sought-after interviewee decades
after retirement. A year after his death, the Cy Young Award was
dedicated as baseball's most prestigious honor for pitchers.
Barbara Washburn never set out to become a mountaineering pioneer,
but in 1947, defying social conventions, she became the first woman
to climb Alaska's Mount McKinley.
Picking up where the best-selling IDITAROD CLASSICS left off, MORE
IDITAROD CLASSICS introduces readers to more of the men and women
who brave the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race from
Anchorage to Nome. And do they ever have stories to tell In their
own words, champions and lesser knowns share their very best
stories--how they came to love the race, train their dogs and
themselves, and battle all manner of winter hardships challenging
the elements in what some have called the most extreme
long-distance competition in the world.
Barbara Washburn never set out to become a mountaineering pioneer,
but in 1947, defying social conventions, she became the first woman
to climb Alaska's Mount McKinley.
In 1958, no one in the Fur Rendezvous World Championship Sled Dog
Race knew the Athabascan Indian from Huslia who limped to the
starting line in Anchorage. But when he finished with the winning
time, George Attla opened a new chapter in the history of sprint
mushing. For decades, Attla, the "Huslia Hustler," reined as
Alaska's most winning sprint champion, having overcome crippling TB
as a child.
Special note to readers: This is a new edition, with a new title,
new introduction and new epilogue, of a work first published by
Stackpole Books.
The best baseball stories from the state whose season is short, but
there's no shortage of future major leaguers - 300 in the last 30
seasons, include Mark McGwire.
In an inspirational biography, Lew Freedman chronicles Redington's
birth on the Chisholm Trail and his boyhood in the Depression --
homeless, motherless, roaming the country looking for work. Alaska
was his rebirth in 1948. On his own piece of dirt, a man could
raise a family, hunt, fish, run dogs, and stand up for what he
believed.
How did a young boy born into poverty become not only an
international soccer star but a celebrity who visited and dined
with kings and presidents? Where did the passion that fueled his
success originate? This book examines the life of Pele to find the
answers. Pele is not simply an extraordinarily talented athlete who
achieved incredible success on the soccer field; his performances
inspired millions of soccer fans as well as individuals outside the
sport around the world. During the peak of his career, Pele was
arguably the most famous person in the world-at a time when there
was no Internet or social media to help build sweeping
international awareness of a pop star. This work is the most
up-to-date examination of Pele's life, covering his personal
history from childhood, his star-studded career as a multi-time
World Cup champion playing for Brazil, his experiences in the
United States playing for the New York Cosmos, as well as Pele's
more recent, current, and future activities as ambassador for
Brazil when it hosts the World Cup in 2014 and the Summer Olympics
in 2016. All readers-ranging from the completely uninitiated who do
not even recognize Pele's name, to die-hard soccer fans and
players-will gain a full appreciation of the greatest soccer player
of all time. Provides detailed information about Pele's life and
amazing career that reveals the unique mindset that was
instrumental to his success, allowing readers to fully appreciate
how special and inspirational this athlete's accomplishments were
Supplies insights into how Pele singlehandedly brought more
worldwide attention to soccer and helped spawn professional
soccer-and generate a true fanbase for the sport of soccer in
general-in the United States
AÂ one-stop record containing everything White Sox fans want
to know about their favorite baseball team, this resource is packed
with anecdotes, history, explanations of traditions, statistics,
trivia, and photos.
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