John Osborne: Look Back in Anger by John Russell Taylor

John Osborne: Look Back in Anger by John Russell Taylor

For many fans in the 1940s and 1950s, it wasn't the exploits of major leagues that made baseball so popular. It was the local minor league heroes--often lacking the talent or luck to make it to the majors--who dominated their thoughts of baseball. One of these players was Eddie Neville. A gutsy, left-handed pitcher from the sandlots of Baltimore, Neville made his mark on the minor league towns he played in, particularly Durham, North Carolina, where he is still the winningest pitcher in the history of the Durham Bulls. His story is one of Class D pennant races and winters spent in the Canal Zone of Panama, all the time chasing the elusive dream to play in the big leagues. Blended in are looks at minor league personalities such as Muscle Shoals and Turkey Tyson and future major leaguers such as Tom Lasorda and Dick Groat.

John Russell Taylor is an English critic and author. He was born in Dover and attended Dover Grammar School before obtaining a double first in English from Jesus College, Cambridge.

He is the author of a vast number of critical works on cinema, and of biographies of important Anglo-American film figures including Orson Welles, Vivien Leigh and Alfred Hitchcock, whom he befriended in LA while teaching at the University of Southern California in the 1970s. Taylor's biography of Hitchcock is the only one to be written with its subject's full cooperation - and led him to write an intensive study of Hollywood's ü¾Ž–”¼migrü¾Ž–”¼ in his book Strangers in Paradise: The Hollywood Emigres 1933-1950.

Taylor has written regularly for publications such as The Times, Sight and Sound, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times throughout his career and was art critic for The Times until 2005.

He now lives in London and West Wales.

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ISBN 13	9780333084007
ISBN 10	0333084004
Titel	John Osborne: Look Back in Anger
Autor	John Russell Taylor
Serie	Casebooks Series
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungsjahr	1991-02-01
Seitenanzahl	196
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