Hugh Casey (eBook)
336 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-7760-1 (ISBN)
Hugh Casey was one of the most colorful members of the iconic Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1940s, a team that took part in four great pennant races, the first National League playoff series, and two exciting World Series over the course of Casey's career. That famed team included many outsized personalities, including executives Larry MacPhail and Branch Rickey, manager Leo Durocher, and players like Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Dixie Walker, Joe Medwick, and Pete Reiser.In Hugh Casey: The Triumphs and Tragedies of a Brooklyn Dodger, Lyle Spatz details Casey's life and career, from his birth in Atlanta to his suicide in that same city thirty-seven years later. Spatz includes such moments as Casey's famous ';pitch that got away' in Game Four of the 1941 World Series, the numerous brawls and beanball wars in which Casey was frequently involved, and the Southern-born Casey's reaction to Jackie Robinson joining the Dodgers. Spatz also reveals how Casey helped to redefine the role of the relief pitcher, twice leading the National League in saves and twice finishing secondif saves had been an official statistic during his lifetime.While this book focuses on Casey's baseball career in Brooklyn, Spatz also covers Casey's often-tragic personal life. He not only ran into trouble with the IRS, he also got into a fistfight with Ernest Hemingway and was charged in a paternity suit that was decided against him. Featuring personal interviews with Casey's son and with former teammate Carl Erskine, this bookwill fascinate and inform fans of the Brooklyn Dodgers and baseball historians alike.
Lyle Spatz is the former longtime chairman of the Society for American Baseball Research’s Baseball Records Committee. He is the author of numerous baseball books, including Historical Dictionary of Baseball (2012) and Willie Keeler: From the Playgrounds of Brooklyn to the Hall of Fame (2015), both published by Rowman & Littlefield. Spatz is also the co-author of 1921: The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York (2010), which won SABR’s Seymour Medal for best baseball history of the year. Spatz’s baseball articles have appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, Total Baseball, Baseball Digest, and more. In 2000 he was presented with SABR’s highest honor, the Bob Davids Award, and in 2017 he was a recipient of SABR's Henry Chadwick Award, established to honor the game's great researchers.
PhotographsForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter 1: The Blood of the Old SouthChapter 2: A Sense That Good Times Were Coming to BrooklynChapter 3: Brooklyn’s Best PitcherChapter 4: A Legitimate Pennant ContenderChapter 5: Beanballs, Spikings, and RhubarbsChapter 6: Casey Fuels a Feud with the CubsChapter 7: Building a ChampionChapter 8: Casey the WorkhorseChapter 9: National League ChampionsChapter 10: A Dramatic World Series Ends a Memorable SeasonChapter 11: The Pitch That Got AwayChapter 12: A Memorable Night with Ernest HemingwayChapter 13: Becoming a Full-Time Relief PitcherChapter 14: You’re in the Navy NowChapter 15: Baseball Enters a New EraChapter 16: The Return of Peace Brings the Return of Wars with St. Louis and ChicagoChapter 17: A Restaurant Launched and a Pennant LostChapter 18: A History-Making AdditionChapter 19: Burt Shotton Replaces Leo DurocherChapter 20: The Hugh Casey Theory of Relief PitchingChapter 21: Holding Off the CardinalsChapter 22: The Mainstay of the 1947 World SeriesChapter 23: A World Series Hero and a Successful RestaurateurChapter 24: Falling, Literally and FigurativelyChapter 25: Casey and the Dodgers Part WaysChapter 26: The Pirates and the YankeesChapter 27: A Pennant and a Paternity SuitChapter 28: A Wonderful Guy Who Never Hurt Anyone—but HimselfChapter 29: Remembering Hugh CaseyNotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 13.4.2017 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 6 Illustrations including: - 6 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs. |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Schlagworte | 1940s baseball • 1940s Dodgers • 1941 World Series • Baseball • baseball brawls • baseball history • baseball player • brooklyn dodgers • Casey's baseball career • Dodgers • Dodgers' relief pitcher • Hugh Casey • Hugh Casey biography • Hugh Casey's career • Hugh Casey's life • life of Hugh Casey • Major League Baseball • MLB • National League • pennant races • relief pitcher • the pitch that got away • world series |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4422-7760-2 / 1442277602 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4422-7760-1 / 9781442277601 |
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