Rube Waddell: The Zany, Brilliant Life of a Strikeout Artist

George Edward "Rube" Waddell was one of the zaniest characters ever to play baseball. The legendary Connie...
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SKU: 9780786407866
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Author: Alan H. Levy
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Language: English
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Rube Waddell: The Zany, Brilliant Life of a Strikeout Artist by Levy, Alan H.

Rube Waddell: The Zany, Brilliant Life of a Strikeout Artist

€69,22

Rube Waddell: The Zany, Brilliant Life of a Strikeout Artist

€69,22
Author: Alan H. Levy
Format: Paperback
Language: English
George Edward "Rube" Waddell was one of the zaniest characters ever to play baseball. The legendary Connie Mack, who saw quite a few cards during his nearly seven decade stint in the majors, once observed that no other screwball he ever saw could hold a candle to Rube. Mack also said that Rube's curveball was the best he'd ever seen. Indeed, Waddell was one of the greatest pitchers in the history of the game. Rube won 191 games in 13 seasons, had four straight 20-win seasons for Mack and the Philadelphia A's, and claimed six consecutive strikeout titles. In 1904 he struck out 349 batters, a record that held for six decades. This biography traces his early life in western Pennsylvania, the fits and starts of his first years in professional baseball, his big years with the A's, and his subsequent fade into obscurity and his early death in a sanatorium on April Fool's Day, 1914.

Author: Alan H. Levy
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: 07/24/2000
Pages: 327
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.92h x 6.00w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9780786407866
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Longtime baseball fan Alan H. Levy is a professor of American history at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania. He is the author of Joe McCarthy (2005), Tackling Jim Crow (2003) and several books on American music, including a biography of the noted composer Edward MacDowell.

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