Alou

My Baseball Journey

Felipe Alou, Peter Kerasotis (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

348 Seiten

2020 | New Edition
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-1404-1 (ISBN)

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Growing up in a tiny shack in the Dominican Republic, Felipe Alou never dreamed he would be the first man born and raised in his country to play and manage in Major League Baseball—and also the first to play in the World Series.

In this extraordinary autobiography, Alou tells of his real dream to become a doctor, and an improbable turn of events that led to the pro contract. Battling racism in the United States and political turmoil in his home country, Alou persevered, paving the way for his brothers and scores of other Dominicans, including his son Moisés.

Alou played seventeen years in the Major Leagues, accumulating more than two thousand hits and two hundred home runs, and then managed for another fourteen years—four with the San Francisco Giants and ten with the Montreal Expos, where he became the winningest manager in franchise history. Alou’s pioneering journey is embedded in the history of baseball, the Dominican Republic, and a remarkable family.

Felipe Alou serves as special assistant to the general manager for the San Francisco Giants. He is an inductee in both the Canadian and the Latino Baseball Hall of Fame and lives with his wife, Lucie, in Boynton Beach, Florida. Peter Kerasotis is an author and journalist who has won ten Associated Press Sports Editor awards, six Football Writers Association of America awards, and seven Florida Sports Writers Association awards. Pedro Martínez is a Hall of Fame pitcher who, like Felipe Alou, is a native of the Dominican Republic. Bruce Bochy is a former Major League Baseball player who managed the Padres for twelve seasons and most recently managed the San Francisco Giants for thirteen seasons, during which he led the Giants to three World Series Championships.

Foreword
Introduction
Part 1. 1935–1956
1. A Name
2. A Childhood
Part 2. 1956–1957
3. Coming to America
4. Just Give Me a Chance
5. Moving Up
Part 3. 1958–1963
6. The Rookie
7. Roberto Clemente
8. Beginning of the End
9. Dawn of a Decade
10. Dark Days
11. Death of a Dictator
12. The Road to the World Series
13. 1962 World Series
14. The Alous Said Hello; the Giants Said Goodbye
Part 4. 1964–1970s
15. Brave New World
16. Settling In
17. Trouble at Home
18. Hitting the Sweet Spot
19. Family Matters
20. Winding Down
Part 5. 1975–Today
21. The Transition
22. The Road Back
23. Big Time Again in the Big Leagues
24. A New Beginning
25. 1994
26. The Demise of the Expos and Me
27. It Ain’t Over till You’re Done
28. Managing Philosophy
29. You Can Go Home Again
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Chronology

Erscheinungsdatum	25.02.2020
Vorwort	Pedro Martínez
Zusatzinfo	35 photographs, 1 illustration, 1 chronology
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4962-1404-8 / 1496214048
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-1404-1 / 9781496214041
Zustand	Neuware