This book covers the entire 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates season from spring expectations through a season of destiny culminated by the wildest, most lopsided World Series ever-one which saw a team get battered by outrageous scores, yet prevail over the dynastic Yankees. Profiles of stars such as Roberto Clemente, 1960 Cy Young winner Vern Law, season MVP Dick Groat, and Yankees including Series MVP Bobby Richardson and Mickey Mantle are included.
What a wild ride that season was: stunning comebacks were routine for the Bucs; Casey Stengel mis-management probably cost the Yankees the Series; Mantle sobs over his most disappointing baseball experience ever; what should arguably be considered as the most important home run ever takes place with Bill Mazeroski's walkoff, Series-winning blast; a forgotten hero in Hal Smith is also discussed.
There's more: Yankee pitcher Ralph Terry heroically speaks of the Mazeroski home he served up...Clemente's bitterness over his lack of recognition...Danny Murtaugh's managerial skill was a key...Roy Face's 1959 mastery and his importance in 1960...much humor and colorful characters surrounded this team, mainly focusing on slugger Dick "Strangeglove" Stuart, a horrible defensive first baseman who once received a standing ovation for snagging a hot dog wrapper which blew across the field toward him...the pitching staff and the defense (especially Clemente and Bill Mazeroski) also are heavily featured.
The author interviewed almost every living Pirate, making this book and the miraculous 1960 season spring to life. Read it and re-live the 1960 Bucs.
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 16 mm
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979-8-88819-213-9 (9798888192139)
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Wayne Stewart was born in Pittsburgh in 1951. He grew up in Donora, Pennsylvania, the same town that produced two Hall of Fame baseball players in Stan "The Man" Musial and Ken Griffey, Jr. In fact, Stewart was a classmate and baseball teammate of Ken Griffey, Sr. at Donora High School (Class of 1969). He received his B.S. in Education at California State College (Pa.) and began a 31-year (secondary education) teaching career in Lorain, Ohio, in 1974. He began his sports writing career in 1978 with a story for Baseball Digest. He continued writing for many national magazines, becoming an author of almost 40 books 12 years later. His first book was Baseball Oddities. He has also written biographies of Musial, Babe Ruth, Alex Rodriguez, and he co-wrote Hall of Famer Raymond Berry's autobiography, All the Moves I Had. He has written many books on trivia such as The New Book of Baseball Trivia. One of his favorite books, along with his Stan the Man and America's Football Factory (about star NFL players such as Joe Montana and Dan Marino out of western Pennsylvania}, is Wits, Flakes, and Clowns on baseball's most colorful characters of all-time. Another nostalgic favorite: Remembering the Stars of the NFL Glory Years. Some of his interactive quiz-like books include You're the Umpire, and Name That Ballplayer.He is married and is the father of two sons and has one grandson. He retired from teaching in 2004 and resides in Amherst, Ohio, near Cleveland.
