Hub Perdue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hub Perdue write by John A. Simpson. This book was released on 2013-10-23. Hub Perdue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A strong-armed devastating spitball pitcher from rural Tennessee who once won 16 games with the Boston Braves, Hub Perdue is better remembered today as one of the clown princes of the Deadball Era. Often compared with fellow player-comedians Germany Schaefer, Nick Altrock, and Rabbit Maranville, Perdue had a quick wit and a rebellious streak that amused teammates but sometimes led to conflicts with management and umpires. ("Mix 'em up!" manager George Stallings had told him, encouraging the weak-hitting pitcher to take his at-bats more seriously; Perdue, a right-hander, dutifully took his strikeouts from alternating sides of the plate.) His penchant for the subversive--he was also a players' union representative who freely dispensed advice on contracts and negotiation--might in fact have curtailed what had been a promising big league career. But his antics in the majors and minors became the stuff of legend, known as "Hublore."
Hub Perdue
Hub Perdue - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hub Perdue write by John A. Simpson. This book was released on 2013-10-17. Hub Perdue available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A strong-armed devastating spitball pitcher from rural Tennessee who once won 16 games with the Boston Braves, Hub Perdue is better remembered today as one of the clown princes of the Deadball Era. Often compared with fellow player-comedians Germany Schaefer, Nick Altrock, and Rabbit Maranville, Perdue had a quick wit and a rebellious streak that amused teammates but sometimes led to conflicts with management and umpires. ("Mix 'em up!" manager George Stallings had told him, encouraging the weak-hitting pitcher to take his at-bats more seriously; Perdue, a right-hander, dutifully took his strikeouts from alternating sides of the plate.) His penchant for the subversive--he was also a players' union representative who freely dispensed advice on contracts and negotiation--might in fact have curtailed what had been a promising big league career. But his antics in the majors and minors became the stuff of legend, known as "Hublore."
Ring
Ring - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ring write by Jonathan Yardley. This book was released on 2001. Ring available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Sportswriter, storyteller, humorist - Ring Lardner was an American original. In this affectionate, entertaining, and authoritative biography, critic Jonathan Yardley gives us a new look at Lardner's all too short life and career."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner
The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner write by Ring Lardner. This book was released on 2017. The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ring Lardner’s influence on American letters is arguably greater than that of any other American writer in the early part of the twentieth century. Lauded by critics and the public for his groundbreaking short stories, Lardner was also the country’s best-known journalist in the 1920s and early 1930s, when his voice was all but inescapable in American newspapers and magazines. Lardner’s trenchant, observant, sly, and cynical writing style, along with a deep understanding of human foibles, made his articles wonderfully readable and his words resonate to this day. Ron Rapoport has gathered the best of Lardner’s journalism from his earliest days at the South Bend Times through his years at the Chicago Tribune and his weekly column for the Bell Syndicate, which appeared in 150 newspapers and reached eight million readers. In these columns Lardner not only covered the great sporting events of the era—from Jack Dempsey’s fights to the World Series and even an America’s Cup—he also wrote about politics, war, and Prohibition, as well as parodies, poems, and penetrating observations on American life. The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner reintroduces this journalistic giant and his work and shows Lardner to be the rarest of writers: a spot-on chronicler of his time and place who remains contemporary to subsequent generations.
Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide for ...
Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide for ... - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide for ... write by . This book was released on 1907. Spalding's Official Base Ball Guide for ... available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
