Fred Clarke

A Biography of the Baseball Hall of Fame Player-Manager

Ronald T. Waldo (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

252 Seiten

2011
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-5933-9 (ISBN)

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Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1945, Fred Clarke began his career in 1894 with a record day at the plate, going 5 for 5. He would go on to play for 21 years spending most of that time as the player-manager of the Pirates, a team he led to four pennants and one World Series Championship (1909).

Journalist Ronald T. Waldo is a member of The Society for American Baseball Research. His articles have been published in Sports Collectors Digest and Pittsburgh Pride Magazine. He has worked several years in the sports memorabilia field. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Preface

1. A Fall Day in Winterset

2. Two Passions Are Born

3. Fearless Youngster

4. The Original Boy Wonder Manager

5. Goodbye Louisville, Hello Pittsburgh

6. Pennant Flag Hangs from Corsair Craft

7. Pittsburgh Repeats in Spite of Johnson’s Treachery

8. Historic Battle with an Old Friend

9. Clarke Trades Proven Performers to Improve Team

10. Twenty-Nine Game Loser Becomes Staff Ace

11. Pirates Come Close During Great Race

12. Championship Glory

13. Clarke Betrayed by Pittsburgh Fans

14. Marty O’Toole’s Three-Ring Circus

15. A Great Career Winds Down

16. Can’t Get Baseball Out of His Blood

17. A Full Life After Baseball

Appendix: Fred Clarke’s Career Statistics

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.4.2011
Zusatzinfo	15 photographs
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-7864-5933-6 / 0786459336
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-5933-9 / 9780786459339
Zustand	Neuware