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Wicked curve : the life and troubled times of Grover Cleveland Alexander / John C. Skipper.
Van Pelt Library GV865.A33 S45 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Skipper, John C., 1945-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alexander, Grover Cleveland, 1887-1950.
- Baseball players--United States--Biography.
- Baseball players.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- v, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2006]
- Summary:
- "Grover Cleveland Alexander won 373 games over his 20-year career, the third highest total in major league history, and led the National League in ERA four times, shutouts seven times, complete games six times, and wins six times.This biography sheds light on the pitcher and man, focusing on Alexander's personal life and Hall of Fame career"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Alone in a crowd
- A stone's throw away
- A big league pitcher
- A pennant flies in Philadelphia
- Nobody does it better
- The changing of the uniforms
- The cub years
- Managerial merry-go-round and McCarthy
- A strikeout for the ages
- Forty years old and counting
- The end of the road
- When the cheering stopped
- The long road downhill
- Brother can you spare me a dime?
- The last hurrah
- Coming home
- Bottom of the ninth.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-229) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0786424125
- OCLC:
- 67405548
- Publisher Number:
- 9780786424122
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