Spitter : Baseball's Notorious Gaylord Perry /

"Gaylord Jackson Perry was born in 1938 as the younger son of a tobacco sharecropper in Martin County, North Carolina. He and his older brother Jim grew up against a background of backbreaking work six days a week in a community that boasted not a single paved road until the 1950s. Their only r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Vaught, David, 1958- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2022]
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Perry, Gaylord.
Pitchers (Baseball)
SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports.
Pitchers (Baseball) > United States > Biography.
United States.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Son of a Sharecropper
  • Farm Life
  • The Legend of Slim Gardner
  • Black Farm Life
  • Bonus Baby
  • In and Out of the Bushes
  • The Long Road Ahead
  • Dark Days in Tacoma
  • A Team and a Town Divided
  • Taking the Plunge
  • A Spitballer's Triumph
  • An Overnight Sensation
  • From Spit to Grease
  • Settled
  • Unsettled
  • Pitcher for Hire
  • Gaylord and Frank
  • I Pitch So I Can Farm
  • Bound for Glory
  • Fame and Tragedy
  • Epilogue.

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