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Big and little poison : Paul and Lloyd Waner, baseball brothers / Clifton Blue Parker.
LIBRA GV865.A1 P37 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parker, Clifton Blue, 1963-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baseball players--United States--Biography.
- Baseball players.
- United States.
- Waner, Paul.
- Waner, Lloyd.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 324 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Paul and Lloyd Waner, baseball brothers
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2003]
- Summary:
- The Waner brothers, Paul and Lloyd -- also known as "Big Poison" and "Little Poison" -- played together for fourteen seasons in the same Pittsburgh outfield in the 1920s and 1930s. They still rank as the best-hitting brothers in major league history with a combined 5,611 hits, and both Waners are in the Hall of Fame, the only playing brothers so honored. This dual biography tells the story of the Waner brothers from their early lives on Oklahoma through their long playing careers and later years. It is also the story of two American eras: the Roaring Twenties and the Depression years. Paul amassed 3,152 hits, and his .333 lifetime average ranks among the highest ever in the game. Lloyd, a lifetime .316 hitter, collected 2,459 hits, and had it not been for health problems, he might have cleared the 3,000 hit milestone as well. Together, they were baseball heroes.
- Contents:
- 1 Corncob Balls and Branch Bats 7
- 2 Go West, Young Seal 23
- 3 Smoky City Blues 37
- 4 Roaring Baseball 42
- 5 Big and Little Poison 65
- 6 Appalachian Stomp 84
- 7 Rough Seas for the Pirate Ship 103
- 8 The Cruel Business 113
- 9 The Exploding Universe 127
- 10 The Return of the Dead Ball 136
- 11 Pennant Hopes and Misadventures 145
- 12 The Curiosity of the League 154
- 13 Celebrating the Common Man 161
- 14 The Bambino's Last Hurrah 168
- 15 Hoisting the Black Flag 180
- 16 The Last Great One 185
- 17 Shadow Ball and the Gloamin' 193
- 18 Requiem for a Lost Season 207
- 19 Go Gently Into the Night 216
- 20 Farewell Steel City 227
- 21 A Hallowed Hitsmith 237
- 22 Wearying War Years 247
- 23 End of Encores 257
- 24 The Professor of Batting 264
- 25 Little Poison Goes Home 284
- 26 Without My Spikes 294
- 27 From Corncobs to Cooperstown 300
- Appendix Career Statistics 313.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-319) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0786414006
- OCLC:
- 50646025
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