購物比價找書網找車網
FindBook
排序:
 
 有 1 項符合

Dennis DeValeria

的圖書
Honus Wagner
$ 267
    電子書
Honus Wagner
作者:Dennis DeValeria,Jeanne Burke DeValeria 
出版社:Henry Holt and Co.
出版日期:2014-01-14
語言:英文   
樂天KOBO 樂天KOBO - 運動  - 來源網頁  
圖書介紹看圖書介紹
圖書介紹 - 資料來源:樂天KOBO   評分:
圖書名稱:Honus Wagner

"We think we have made a deal which will materially help us out," Fred Clarke, manager of the National Louisville Colonels, prophetically told the local media in 1897. "After negotiating for some days we have succeeded in securing Hans Wagner...He is a big, heavy German, with very large hands, and is powerful as a bull. He kills the ball." A few years later, the widely read sportswriter Hugh Fullteron would refer to Wagner as "the nearest approach to a baseball machine ever constructed."

Honus Wagner is generally acknowledged as the finest shortstop in baseball history. Along with Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson, he was one of the first five players to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. His rare 1909 baseball card--known to collectors as the Holy Grail of American memorabilia--fetched nearly half a million dollars at auction in 1991. His rise paralleled the development of baseball as the national pastime, and his playing skills remain legendary. He was, possibly, the first superstar of American sports.

And yet, amazingly, a full-length biography of Honus Wagner had never before appeared. Here, Dennis and Jeanne DeValeria tell the sports hero's whole story. The son of German immigrants, Wagner (1874-1955) grew up in Andrew Carnegie's Pittsburgh, working in coal mines at age twelve. At age thirteen he worked in a steel mill; at twenty-one he was a professional baseball player. Despite his hardscrabble background, he came to be respected by those in the highest reaches of American society: when he became an icon, he would know President Howard Taft and industrialist Henry Ford. And with prestige came wealth: one of the highest-paid players in the game, he was among the first in his hometown to own an automobile.

At a time when baseball was a raw, aggressive game played by rugged men, the unflappable Wagner's humble ways enhanced his miraculous performance throughout his twenty-one-year career, including three seasons with the Louisville Colonels and eighteen with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Wagner's gradual emergence from the pack into stardom and popularity is described here in rich detail. But the book also reveals much of Wagner's family and personal life--his minor league career, his values, his failed business ventures during the Depression, his later years--about which, until now, there had been no well known narrative.

Neither the "rowdy-ball" ruffian nor the teetotal saint constructed of legend, Wagner is presented here in a complete portrait--one that offers a vivid impression of the era when baseball was America's game and the nation was evolving into the world's industrial leader.

贊助商廣告
 
 
博客來 - 暢銷排行榜
被討厭的勇氣:自我啟發之父「阿德勒」的教導
作者:古賀史健,岸見一郎
出版社:究竟
出版日期:2014-10-30
$ 237 
Taaze 讀冊生活 - 暢銷排行榜
世界上最透明的故事(日本出版界話題作,只有紙本書可以體驗的感動)
作者:杉井光
出版社:皇冠文化出版有限公司
出版日期:2024-09-30
$ 284 
博客來 - 暢銷排行榜
城與不確定的牆(平裝)
作者:村上春樹
出版社:時報出版
出版日期:2024-11-23
$ 537 
Taaze 讀冊生活 - 暢銷排行榜
我的孩子是霸凌者
作者:しろやぎ秋吾
出版社:台灣角川股份有限公司
出版日期:2024-08-22
$ 252 
 
博客來 - 新書排行榜
練習在一起【限量西米露扉頁版】
作者:謎卡Mika Lin
出版社:時報出版
出版日期:2024-11-19
$ 276 
金石堂 - 新書排行榜
叛逆玩家 01 鏡中私語特別畫卡版
作者:花於景
出版社:魔豆文化有限公司
出版日期:2024-11-20
$ 253 
Taaze 讀冊生活 - 新書排行榜
裝酷的我被要求教她做愛...
作者:あずまゆき
出版社:暮想出版股份有限公司
出版日期:2024-11-14
$ 235 
Taaze 讀冊生活 - 新書排行榜
記事與隨想
作者:周志文
出版社:聯合文學出版社股份有限公司
出版日期:2024-11-05
$ 294 
 

©2024 FindBook.com.tw -  購物比價  找書網  找車網  服務條款  隱私權政策