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Safe by a mile / Charlie Metro with Thomas Altherr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Metro, Charlie, 1918-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metro, Charlie, 1918-.
- Metro, Charlie.
- Baseball managers--United States--Biography.
- Baseball managers.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 529 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- Charlie Metro's career runs the gamut of the specialties found in baseball-player, coach, manager, scout, inventor. Metro has lived baseball at every level from the Great Depression to today's multimillion dollar contracts. One of a kind, Metro's life mirrors the astounding changes in the game as well as in the nation. Metro's tale is full of heart and a wealth of anecdotes, the result of a fascinating life and a true love of the game.
- Charlie Metro was born Charles Moreskonich in Nanty-Glo, Pennsylvania, in 1919. He played in the major leagues from 1943 to 1945 with the Detroit Tigers and the Philadelphia Athletics. He managed for parts of two seasons, with the 1962 Cubs and the 1970 Kansas City Royals. He also coached the 1965 Chicago White Sox and the 1982 Oakland Athletics. Although he had far longer service in the minor leagues, he will probably be best remembered as one of the great scouts and teachers in baseball history.
- Contents:
- 1 Hookey from High School 1
- 2 The Big Leagues Were a Long Way Off 24
- 3 Up with Detroit and Philadelphia 63
- 4 Go West, Young Man 106
- 5 Points South 157
- 6 The Road Back to Triple-A 192
- 7 Mile High, Here We Come 227
- 8 A Car Missing a Wheel 250
- 9 Scouting, the Toughest Job in Baseball 281
- 10 Putting All the King's Men Together 316
- 11 If This Is Tuesday, It Must Be Albuquerque 345
- 12 Billy Ball 378
- 13 Retirement? What Retirement? 403
- 14 My Own Hall of Fame 441
- 15 I Dream of Baseball 469
- Appendix Career Statistics 499.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0803282818
- OCLC:
- 47863287
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