Bestselling baseball author Donald Honig scores again with this follow-up to his Baseball in the '50s. It is lavishly illustrated with over 500 photographs--many of which have never been published--and highlighted with profiles of the decade's most important players.
Beset with unwanted secrets, young Allen Stewart returns home to his small Connecticut town from the crucibles of Antietam and Gettysburg, wounded in body and spirit. He soon finds himself engulfed by the love of two beautiful and passionate young women. As he struggles to decide between them he discovers another, stunning secret that threatens to shatter his life.
As Donald Honig points out in his introduction, “Every World Series in itself is a tale with beginning, middle, and end, and because there must be a winner, there must be a hero.” Tales of Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Sandy Koufax, and Willie Mays are related by the star players who knew them. Those players recall vivid moments from their World Series games, stretching from 1912 to 1974.
From Simon & Schuster comes Donald Honig's Baseball America where he shares the stories of the heroes of the beloved game of baseball and the times of their glory. The New York Times sports columnist, Ira Berkow, describes Baseball America as "part history, part biography, part drama, and a complete pleasure.
If you were much of a boy growing up in the Maspeth section of Queens in the late 1930s and 1940s, you had the baseball fever. It seemed contagious, but it struck mostly from within. . . . Often, in later years, when I was writing a long series of books on the game, some well-intended philistine would ask to have explained to him the fascination with baseball. I offered my stock answer: 'If you have to ask the question, you'll never understand the answer.' With this small confession Donald Honig begins his charming memoir of a life devoted to the charms of baseball, including the many great figures of the game he has known in the past half-century. Mr. Honig brings to these tales his characteristic intelligence and wit, a passion for the integrity of the game, and a gift for creating memorable images from little-known episodes as well as those never-to-be-forgotten moments in baseball history.
Honig interviewed former big-league players across the country to compile this nostalgic book packed with statistics, action, revelations, and an extraordinary oral history of the halcyon days of baseball between the world wars. Includes comments by Ted Williams, Bucky Waters, Lou Gehrig, and others. Photos.
The fifteen major-league managers interviewed in The Man in the Dugout represent six decades of baseball—men like Joe McCarthy of the New York Yankees and Walter Alston of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Each oral history, steeped in nostalgia and confidentiality, is a record of the triumphs and defeats of the man carrying the prime responsibility of a multimillion-dollar franchise. Here the manager is revealed as a strategist, tactician, peacemaker, politician, ego-soother, and builder of self-confidence. He holds the toughest, most gratifying, and most insecure job in baseball.
It is February 1946 in New York. World War II is over at last, and the first glorious postwar baseball season is on the horizon. Best of all, the Dodgers have a sensational rookie prospect, Harvey Tippen. Then fate throws a curve. Gorgeous young society heiress Gloria Manley is found brutally murdered in her East Side townhouse, along with her live-in maid. Harvey Tippen had been her lover - and now he tops the list of suspects. Caught between cops looking for a quick conviction and a Dodger ownership seeking to sweep the scandal under the carpet, and agonizing over a secret of his own he is afraid to confess, Tippen is coerced into a confession. It looks like Tippen's diamond future is over before it's begun - when baseball reporter Joe Tinker sends the game into extra innings. Tinker, whom fans of both baseball and mystery will remember from his debut in Donald Honig's acclaimed The Plot to Kill Jackie Robinson, finds himself far from the simple verities of the ballfield as he hunts the ugly truth about the young beauty who used men as playthings and made love a cruel sport. He is now in a world of cafe society and sophisticated sensuality, where the rich and the rapacious make their own rules for the games they play. Tinker must deal in very different ways with an oversexed divorcee...a producer who makes him question his notions of homosexuality...a macho actor who nay be overplaying his part...and a swaggering Lothario who caters to women with enough wealth to buy the very best in bed. At the same time he must persuade Roger Selman, a tough New York City police detective who has seen it all, that a vital piece of the puzzle has been overlooked. But nothing can prepare Tinker forwhat awaits him at the end of this twisted trail of desire and death amid the high jinks and low-down dirt of the smart set. With a wondrously created atmosphere of New York in the 1940s, when the Bums played at Ebbetts Field and the beautiful people paraded at the Copa, Donald Honig has written a mystery-thriller as rich in nostalgic magic as it is in spellbinding suspense. Ringing with authenticity, it is a solid hit all the way.
The exciting story of baseball during and after WWII--when clubs still traveled by train, when night games and artificial lighting became commonplace, when the restrictions were relaxed on Negro players--and when the sport began to become big business. Features Jackie Robinson, DiMaggio, and others. Photos.
Billy Prescott, a $40,000 bonus baby, finds his first year of professional baseball playing difficult as he learns to cope with fickle fans and earns the respect of a former major league star.
A one-of-a-kind book - a one-of-a-kind series. In this unique book, Donald Honig highlights the careers of the 15 greatest catchers of all time. The catcher is a ballplayer with few luxuries; he is also the one player whose most important contributions to his team's success go unnoticed by the public. Don examines the best players at this position; the men who view the field from the other way around, encased in archaic-looking equipment & are forced to spend most of their time in a squatting position. The remaining books in this series will examine the greatest players for all other positions. He includes players such as Roger Bresnahan, Johnny Kling, Yogi Berra, Johnny Bench, Carlton Fish, Thurman Munson, & others. Richly illustrated with over 120 black & white photos. Honig has written over 30 books about baseball. Some of his classics include: BASEBALL WHEN THE GRASS WAS REAL, THE IMAGE OF THEIR GREATNESS (with Lawrence Ritter), & BASEBALL: THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF AMERICA'S GAME.
This title introduces baseball fans to the history of the Boston Red Sox MLB franchise. The title features informative sidebars, exciting photos, a timeline, team facts, trivia, a glossary, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Entering professional baseball against his father's will, Ted seems unable to maintain an honest relationship with his father as his batting average first soars and then continually drops.
How do movie star bodies and celebrity culture influence the way "real" girls and women feel about their own size and shape? What effect can popular films have on everyday eating behavior and exercise rituals? "Body Shots" shows how Hollywood films, movie stars, and celebrity media help propagate the values of an eating disordered culture that promotes constant self-scrutiny and vigilance, denial of appetite and overcontrol of weight in the compulsive pursuit of an eternally elusive body ideal of slenderness and fitness. In a unique approach that merges the disciplines of film analysis, gender studies, and psychology, clinical psychologist and cinema studies scholar Emily Fox-Kales demonstrates how the body narratives of such Hollywood celebrities as Lindsay Lohan, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Oprah Winfrey and their battles with bulimia, post-maternal weight gain, and yo-yo dieting not only serve as public enactments of the same eating and weight struggles their fans endure, but create a new normal which naturalizes and even valorizes the chronic body dissatisfaction and weight obsession that are established risk factors for eating disorders in women and girls. Written for students of cultural and gender studies, parents, media literacy educators, as well as film buffs everywhere, this book aims to provide the moviegoer with the critical tools necessary to develop a resistant gaze at Hollywood productions and make healthier choices among the many viewing screens of our super-mediated world.
Seven major league baseball players relate the trials and rewards of their minor league experiences that culminated in the thrill of being called to the majors.
An illustrated history of baseball provides the selected top players' records and statistics, makes an evaluation of each player and his era, and includes short player biographies
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