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UNINA9910820851503321 |
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Autore |
D'Amore Jonathan |
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Titolo |
Rogers Hornsby : a biography / / Jonathan D'Amore |
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Westport, Conn. : , : Greenwood Press, , 2004 |
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London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2024 |
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ISBN |
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979-82-16-00966-5 |
1-282-41795-9 |
9786612417955 |
0-313-06207-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (186 p.) |
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Collana |
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Baseball's all-time greatest hitters |
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Soggetti |
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Baseball players - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-155) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Stockyards and Sandlots; CHAPTER 2 Growing into the National League; CHAPTER 3 Money; CHAPTER 4 The Rajah; CHAPTER 5 A Championship; CHAPTER 6 ""New York's New Babe Ruth""; CHAPTER 7 Peaks and Valleys; CHAPTER 8 The Great Depression; CHAPTER 9 TO Baseball's Hinterlands and Back; CHAPTER 10 Hornsby'S Bend; CHAPTER 11 Making of a Legend; Appendix: Rogers Hornsby's Career and World Series Statistics; Selected Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Rogers Hornsby has the highest career batting average of any right-handed hitter and the second highest career mark overall. The Rajah won seven batting titles and hit over .400 three times. He was also one of baseball's most successful player-managers, leading the St. Louis Cardinals to a historic World Series triumph over the Yankees in 1926. Hornsby had an unrivaled passion for baseball; as a young player, he once even donned a disguise to play in a women's league. But his unyielding drive to succeed often alienated him from lesser players, and his penchant for the racetrack made him powerf |
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