Tony Oliva : The Life and Times of a Minnesota Twins Legend /

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If not for the botched Bay of Pigs invasion, Minnesota might never have known one of its most popular baseball players, Twins three-time batting champion and eight-time All-Star Tony Oliva. In April 1961, the twenty-two-year-old Cuban prospect failed to impress the Twins in a tryout, but the sudden...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Henninger, Thom (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Oliva, Tony, > 1941-
Minnesota Twins (Baseball team)
Baseball players.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Reference.
SPORTS & RECREATION > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Business Aspects.
GAMES > Gambling > Sports.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Sports.
Joueurs de base-ball > États-Unis > Biographies.
Baseball players > United States > Biography.
United States.
Biographies.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Young Pedro
  • Life after Cuba closes
  • The Minor Leagues
  • A fast start to a Big League career
  • Injured rookie wins unprecedented batting crown
  • Oliva leads pennant push
  • Life's highs and lows
  • The great pennant race of 1967
  • Marriage and family in the Year of the Pitcher
  • Baseball's summer of change
  • Twins repeat with a new Bill in charge
  • Family reunions and the career-changing knee injury
  • The extremes of 1972
  • The final years as a player
  • Tony O: The Man
  • The Hall of Fame question.

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