Author: Alan H. Levy
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786481129
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
George Edward "Rube" Waddell was one of the zaniest characters ever to play baseball. The legendary Connie Mack, who saw quite a few cards during his nearly seven decade stint in the majors, once observed that no other screwball he ever saw could hold a candle to Rube. Mack also said that Rube's curveball was the best he'd ever seen. Indeed, Waddell was one of the greatest pitchers in the history of the game. Rube won 191 games in 13 seasons, had four straight 20-win seasons for Mack and the Philadelphia A's, and claimed six consecutive strikeout titles. In 1904 he struck out 349 batters, a record that held for six decades. This biography traces his early life in western Pennsylvania, the fits and starts of his first years in professional baseball, his big years with the A's, and his subsequent fade into obscurity and his early death in a sanatorium on April Fool's Day, 1914.
Rube Waddell
Author: Alan H. Levy
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786481129
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
George Edward "Rube" Waddell was one of the zaniest characters ever to play baseball. The legendary Connie Mack, who saw quite a few cards during his nearly seven decade stint in the majors, once observed that no other screwball he ever saw could hold a candle to Rube. Mack also said that Rube's curveball was the best he'd ever seen. Indeed, Waddell was one of the greatest pitchers in the history of the game. Rube won 191 games in 13 seasons, had four straight 20-win seasons for Mack and the Philadelphia A's, and claimed six consecutive strikeout titles. In 1904 he struck out 349 batters, a record that held for six decades. This biography traces his early life in western Pennsylvania, the fits and starts of his first years in professional baseball, his big years with the A's, and his subsequent fade into obscurity and his early death in a sanatorium on April Fool's Day, 1914.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786481129
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
George Edward "Rube" Waddell was one of the zaniest characters ever to play baseball. The legendary Connie Mack, who saw quite a few cards during his nearly seven decade stint in the majors, once observed that no other screwball he ever saw could hold a candle to Rube. Mack also said that Rube's curveball was the best he'd ever seen. Indeed, Waddell was one of the greatest pitchers in the history of the game. Rube won 191 games in 13 seasons, had four straight 20-win seasons for Mack and the Philadelphia A's, and claimed six consecutive strikeout titles. In 1904 he struck out 349 batters, a record that held for six decades. This biography traces his early life in western Pennsylvania, the fits and starts of his first years in professional baseball, his big years with the A's, and his subsequent fade into obscurity and his early death in a sanatorium on April Fool's Day, 1914.
Jack Waddell's Heritage
Author: Doug Boylan
Publisher: DMBoylan
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
This book is about my wife Sandi’s dad Jack Waddell and his heritage. It includes Family History of Waddell, Anderson, Allen, Turkington, Taylor, Watling, Laws, Elliott, Collings, Wilthy, and Goddard families of England, Ireland, and Canada
Publisher: DMBoylan
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
This book is about my wife Sandi’s dad Jack Waddell and his heritage. It includes Family History of Waddell, Anderson, Allen, Turkington, Taylor, Watling, Laws, Elliott, Collings, Wilthy, and Goddard families of England, Ireland, and Canada
Outline Sketches of Sauk County
Author: William Harvey Canfield
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sauk County (Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sauk County (Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Who Do You Think You Are?
Author: Dan Waddell
Publisher: London : BBC
ISBN: 9780563521945
Category : Celebrities
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Published against a big multimedia TV event, this book is a jargon-free idiot's guide to tracing your family history. Light in tone, sometimes funny, often moving, and aimed at absolutely everyone, the book combines both stats and pub facts, with very real emotions as people discover the heroes and villains in their family's past. Rather than a dry 'how to' guide though, this book is inclusive, non-patronising and lively, and emphasises the human and emotional side to this popular pastime. Each of us are a part of history. And each of us has a story that in microcosm creates the epic ebbs and flows of British history. Like the TV series, the book will enthuse and inspire the reader to join in the process that enables us to say as individuals who we think we are, and as a nation, what makes our country what it is. This basic essential information is brought to life by pull-out boxes on our favourite celebrities as they trace their family trees back over the last couple of hundred years - such as Meera Syal's story: 'From Dudley to Delhi'. Within the text are pull-out 'Did you know?' facts on everything from the pasts of well-known celebrities to our make-up as a nation (Are men more
Publisher: London : BBC
ISBN: 9780563521945
Category : Celebrities
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Published against a big multimedia TV event, this book is a jargon-free idiot's guide to tracing your family history. Light in tone, sometimes funny, often moving, and aimed at absolutely everyone, the book combines both stats and pub facts, with very real emotions as people discover the heroes and villains in their family's past. Rather than a dry 'how to' guide though, this book is inclusive, non-patronising and lively, and emphasises the human and emotional side to this popular pastime. Each of us are a part of history. And each of us has a story that in microcosm creates the epic ebbs and flows of British history. Like the TV series, the book will enthuse and inspire the reader to join in the process that enables us to say as individuals who we think we are, and as a nation, what makes our country what it is. This basic essential information is brought to life by pull-out boxes on our favourite celebrities as they trace their family trees back over the last couple of hundred years - such as Meera Syal's story: 'From Dudley to Delhi'. Within the text are pull-out 'Did you know?' facts on everything from the pasts of well-known celebrities to our make-up as a nation (Are men more
Colonial And Revolutionary Families Of Pennsylvania
Author: John Woolf Jordan
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806352396
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 1726
Book Description
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806352396
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 1726
Book Description
To Wake the Nations
Author: Eric J. Sundquist
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674893313
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Sundquist presents a major reevaluation of the formative years of American literature, 1830-1930, that shows how white and black literature constitute a single interwoven tradition. By examining African America's contested relation to the intellectual and literary forms of white culture, he reconstructs American literary tradition.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674893313
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Sundquist presents a major reevaluation of the formative years of American literature, 1830-1930, that shows how white and black literature constitute a single interwoven tradition. By examining African America's contested relation to the intellectual and literary forms of white culture, he reconstructs American literary tradition.
Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland
A History of Preston County, West Virginia
Author: Oren F. Morton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Preston County (W. Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Preston County (W. Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Gay Olympian
Author: Tom Waddell
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Tom Waddell perhaps did more to flout gay stereotypes than any other American. He was not effeminate; he was a world-class athlete. He was also a pheneomenon--a revelation to mainstream America when he appeared with his lover in People and on ABC's 20/20 when he was dying of AIDS. Now, celebrated sports writer Dick Schaap teams up with Waddell to offer an inspiring biography.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Tom Waddell perhaps did more to flout gay stereotypes than any other American. He was not effeminate; he was a world-class athlete. He was also a pheneomenon--a revelation to mainstream America when he appeared with his lover in People and on ABC's 20/20 when he was dying of AIDS. Now, celebrated sports writer Dick Schaap teams up with Waddell to offer an inspiring biography.