Catfish
The Three Million Dollar Pitcher
1st Edition
Published on 15. August 2014
223 pages
978-1-939430-11-3 (ISBN)
Description
The day the modern athlete was born.
On New Year's Day, 1975, Catfish Hunter left the Oakland A's for a three-million-dollar contract with the New York Yankees, becoming the highest-paid pitcher in baseball history.
Sports journalist Bill Libby, author of Parnelli, follows Hunter from his years anchoring the Oakland A's through their three World Series titles (1972, 1973, and 1974) to the auction that made him a superstar. The book draws on direct cooperation from Hunter, Reggie Jackson, and figures from across baseball.
Catfish: The Three Million Dollar Pitcher is an insider account of the moment modern sports flew, for better or worse, into the stratosphere.
Readers of baseball biography, sports history, free agency, sports management, and the lives of American athletes will find, in this deeply researched work, a primary-source account of one of the transactions that reshaped American professional sports.
On New Year's Day, 1975, Catfish Hunter left the Oakland A's for a three-million-dollar contract with the New York Yankees, becoming the highest-paid pitcher in baseball history.
Sports journalist Bill Libby, author of Parnelli, follows Hunter from his years anchoring the Oakland A's through their three World Series titles (1972, 1973, and 1974) to the auction that made him a superstar. The book draws on direct cooperation from Hunter, Reggie Jackson, and figures from across baseball.
Catfish: The Three Million Dollar Pitcher is an insider account of the moment modern sports flew, for better or worse, into the stratosphere.
Readers of baseball biography, sports history, free agency, sports management, and the lives of American athletes will find, in this deeply researched work, a primary-source account of one of the transactions that reshaped American professional sports.
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Person
By Bill Libby
Content
- Catfish
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
