Leo Durocher

Baseball's Prodigal Son

Paul Dickson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

386 Seiten

2023
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-1-4962-3523-7 (ISBN)

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Leo Durocher (1905–1991) was baseball’s all-time leading cocky, flamboyant, and galvanizing character, casting a shadow across several eras, from the time of Babe Ruth to the Space Age Astrodome, from Prohibition through the Vietnam War. For more than forty years, he was at the forefront of the game, with a Zelig-like ability to be present as a player or manager for some of the greatest teams and defining baseball moments of the twentieth century. A rugged, combative shortstop and a three-time All-Star, he became a legendary manager, winning three pennants and a World Series in 1954.

Durocher performed on three main stages: New York, Chicago, and Hollywood. He entered from the wings, strode to where the lights were brightest, and then took a poke at anyone who tried to upstage him. On occasion he would share the limelight, but only with Hollywood friends such as actor Danny Kaye, tough guy and sometime roommate George Raft, Frank Sinatra, and Durocher’s third wife, movie star Laraine Day.

Dickson explores Durocher’s life and times through primary source materials, interviews with those who knew him, and original newspaper files. A superb addition to baseball literature, Leo Durocher offers fascinating and fresh insights into the racial integration of baseball, Durocher’s unprecedented suspension from the game, the two clubhouse revolts staged against him in Brooklyn and Chicago, and his vibrant life off the field.

Paul Dickson is the author of more than sixty-five nonfiction books, including more than a dozen on baseball. He is the author of the Dickson Baseball Dictionary, named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the five best baseball books ever written, Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick, winner of the Casey Award from SABR, and The Hidden Language of Baseball: How Signs and Sign-Stealing Have Influenced the Course of Our National Pastime (Nebraska, 2019).

1. Pregame
2. Enfant Terrible
3. Damned Yankee
4. The Red Menace
5. Gashouse Tough
6. The Artful Dodger
7. Mutiny in Flatbush
8. Game Changer
9. Exiled
10. Over the River
11. Miracle Man
12. Hollywood Dodger
13. The Contentious Cub
14. Endgame
15. The Rocky Road to Cooperstown
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.02.2023
Zusatzinfo	25 photographs, index
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4962-3523-1 / 1496235231
ISBN-13	978-1-4962-3523-7 / 9781496235237
Zustand	Neuware