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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A&M University Press,
[2022]
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| Édition: | First edition. |
| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.


