Mitchell Nathanson

God Almighty Hisself

The Life and Legacy of Dick Allen

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Dick Allen is considered by some to be the best baseball player not in the Hall of Fame and by others to be the game's most destructive and divisive force-ever. God Almighty Hisself: The Life and Legacy of Dick Allen unveils the strange and maddening career of a man who fulfilled and frustrated expectations all at once.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780812248012
• ISBN-10: 0812248015
• Artikelnr.: 44522031

Autorenporträt

Mitchell Nathanson is Professor of Law at Villanova University School of Law. He is author of A People's History of Baseball and coauthor of Understanding Baseball: A Textbook.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue. Baseball's Way
Chapter 1. The Individualist
Chapter 2. The Double Standard
Chapter 3. A Job, Not a Game
Chapter 4. What Fight?
Chapter 5. Rules
Chapter 6. Seniority Don't Drive in Runs
Chapter 7. When I Don't Like Something, I Rebel
Chapter 8. A Threat to the Game
Chapter 9. I Am My Own Man
Chapter 10. Public Relations Men, Not Ballplayers
Chapter 11. Dick, Not Richie
Chapter 12. The System
Chapter 13. The Return
Chapter 14. No Apologies
Chapter 15. Free Agent
Epilogue. His Way
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments