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Urban Shocker: Silent Hero of Baseball's Golden Age
Steve Steinberg
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Description for Urban Shocker: Silent Hero of Baseball's Golden Age
hardcover. Urban Shocker was a fiercely competitive and colourful pitcher, a spitballer who had many famous battles with Babe Ruth before returning to the Yankees. Delving into Shocker's baseball career, his love of the game, and his battle with heart disease, Steve Steinberg shows the dominant and courageous force that he was. Num Pages: 352 pages, 50 photographs, index. BIC Classification: 3JJG; BGS; WSJT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. .
2018 SABR Baseball Research Award Winner
Baseball in the 1920s is most known for Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees, but there was another great Yankee player in that era whose compelling story remains untold. Urban Shocker was a fiercely competitive and colorful pitcher, a spitballer who had many famous battles with Babe Ruth before returning to the Yankees. Shocker was traded away to the St. Louis Browns in 1918 by Yankees manager Miller Huggins, a trade Huggins always regretted. In 1925, after four straight seasons with at least twenty wins with the hapless Browns, Shocker became ... Read more
2018 SABR Baseball Research Award Winner
Baseball in the 1920s is most known for Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees, but there was another great Yankee player in that era whose compelling story remains untold. Urban Shocker was a fiercely competitive and colorful pitcher, a spitballer who had many famous battles with Babe Ruth before returning to the Yankees. Shocker was traded away to the St. Louis Browns in 1918 by Yankees manager Miller Huggins, a trade Huggins always regretted. In 1925, after four straight seasons with at least twenty wins with the hapless Browns, Shocker became ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803295995
SKU
V9780803295995
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About Steve Steinberg
Steve Steinberg is a baseball historian and coauthor with Lyle Spatz of The Colonel and Hug: The Partnership that Transformed the New York Yankees (Nebraska, 2015), research award winner from the Society for American Baseball Research, and 1921: The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York (Nebraska, 2010), winner of the Seymour Medal.
Reviews for Urban Shocker: Silent Hero of Baseball's Golden Age
"Urban Shocker . . . recalls a Yankees pitcher who should be better known for his name alone. A spitballer who was traded to the St. Louis Browns, Shocker had four 20-win seasons before returning to New York in time to be part of the 1927 championship team."—Daniel M. Gold, New York Times "Thanks to Steve Steinberg, we now know as ... Read more