Schoolboy : The Untold Journey of a Yankees Hero / Waite Hoyt, Tim Manners, and Bob Costas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoyt, Waite, 1899-1984, author.

Manners, Tim, author.

Costas, Bob, 1952- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baseball players--United States--Biography.

Baseball players.

Pitchers (Baseball)--United States--Biography.

Pitchers (Baseball).

New York Yankees (Baseball team)--History.

New York Yankees (Baseball team).

Hoyt, Waite, 1899-1984.

Hoyt, Waite.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2024]

Summary:

The never-before-published memoir of Waite Hoyt, Hall of Fame pitcher for the New York Yankees in their first dynasty decade, longtime Cincinnati Reds broadcaster after his playing career, and vaudeville star, funeral director, oil painter, and alcoholic.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Prologue

Part 1.

1. The Family Web

2. There Goes Our Boy

3. Odyssey of Oddities

4. In the Bag

5. Great Big Fellas

6. When Schoolboys Cry

7. The Joy Clubs

8. Miss Scoville's Advice

9. A Bath in Badness

Part 2.

10. Industrial Strength

11. Red Sox Hop

12. Me and the Babe

13. Turn of the Twenties

14. Art of Baseball

15. Young and a Yankee

16. The Merry Mortician

17. The Roaring Yankees

18. Little Big Hug

Part 3.

19. Skating with Lou

20. Dear Ellen

21. The Unartful Dodger

22. Radio Days

23. The Last Drink

24. Then and Now

Epilogue

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781496238641