Baseball's Comeback Players

Forty Major Leaguers Who Fell and Rose Again

Rick Swaine (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2014
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-7654-1 (ISBN)

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Profiles forty big leaguers who engineered remarkable comebacks to salvage fading baseball careers. Details of each comeback is provided along with a summary of the players career. The players profiled range from Hall of Famers like Ted Williams and Stan Musial; to near-greats like Tommy John and Luis Tiant; to journeyman performers like George McQuinn and Tony Cuccinello.

This book profiles forty major league ballplayers who engineered remarkable comebacks to salvage fading careers. Details of each comeback is provided along with a summary of the player's career. The comeback players range from Hall of Famers like Ted Williams and Stan Musial; to near-greats like Tommy John and Luis Tiant; to journeyman performers like George McQuinn and Tony Cuccinello.

In the absence of statistical standards to evaluate or even define comebacks, the selection of the top comeback players was based on the following criteria: historical significance, uniqueness, dramatic content, degree of difficulty, and the player's overall reputation and standing.

Society for American Baseball Research member Rick Swaine has five baseball books in publication, two of them on baseball's integration era. He has also been a contributor to The Baseball Research Journal and The National Pastime. Retired from an accounting career, he lives in the Tallahassee, Florida area.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Tommy John

2. Hank Greenberg

3. Smoky Joe Wood

4. Monty Stratton

5. Bo Jackson

6. Eric Davis

7. Andres Galarraga

8. Ted Williams

9. Stan Musial

10. Grover Cleveland Alexander

11. Rabbit Maranville

12. Willie McCovey

13. Eddie Waitkus

14. Tony Conigliaro

15. Charley Gelbert

16. Dennis Eckersley

17. Red Schoendienst

18. Rico Carty

19. Dave Dravecky

20. Jack Quinn

21. John Hiller

22. Steve Howe

23. George McQuinn

24. Luis Tiant128

25. Robin Roberts

26. Babe Adams

27. Mark Koenig

28. Orlando Hernandez

29. Sal Maglie

30. Jimmie Wilson

31. Satchel Paige

32. Darryl Strawberry and Dwight “Doc” Gooden

33. Dennis Martinez

34. Fernando Valenzuela

35. Julio Franco

36. Johnny Lindell

37. Fred Mitchell

38. Tony Cuccinello

39. Van Lingle Mungo

Appendix: Comeback Player of the Year Award

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Zusatzinfo	33 photos, appendix, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	445 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
Themenwelt	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-7864-7654-0 / 0786476540
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-7654-1 / 9780786476541
Zustand	Neuware