Indiana-Born Major League Baseball Players

Released on by Pete Cava
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  • Indiana-Born Major League Baseball Players Book Detail

  • Author : Pete Cava
  • Release Date : 2015-10-02
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Genre : Sports & Recreation
  • Pages : 259
  • ISBN 13 : 1476622701
  • File Size : 24,24 MB
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Indiana-Born Major League Baseball Players by Pete Cava PDF Summary

Book Description: Indiana boasts a rich baseball tradition, with 10 native sons enshrined in Cooperstown. This biographical dictionary provides a close look at the lives of all 364 Hoosier big leaguers, who include New York City's first baseball superstar; the first rookie pitcher to win three games in a World Series; the man who caught most of Cy Young's record 511 career wins; one of the game's first star relievers; the player who held the record for consecutive games played before Lou Gehrig; an obscure infielder mentioned in Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic strip; baseball's only one-legged pitcher; Indiana's first Mr. Basketball, who became one of baseball's greatest pinch-hitters; the first African American to play for the Cincinnati Reds; the only pitcher to throw a perfect game in the World Series; the skipper of the 1969 "Miracle Mets"; the pitcher for whom a ground-breaking surgical procedure is named; and the only two men to have played in both the World Series and the Final Four of the NCAA Basketball Tournament.

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Indiana-Born Major League Baseball Players

Indiana-Born Major League Baseball Players

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Indiana boasts a rich baseball tradition, with 10 native sons enshrined in Cooperstown. This biographical dictionary provides a close look at the lives of all 3