Coal Miner's Son by Jim Kaplan
Lefty Grove may have been baseball's best pitcher. He was certainly one of its most interesting. A three-hundred-game winner during 1925-41, he captured an unmatched nine ERA and five winning-percentage titles. While starring for the Philadelphia Athletics he was known for "a fastball and a mean disposition," qualities best exemplified in 1931, when he won thirty-one games and wrecked a clubhouse. Grove finished his career with the Boston Red Sox, where he injured his arm and reconstructed himself as a fabulous control artist. Jim Kaplan is a former writer for Sports Illustrated and the author of numerous books, including "Pine-tarred" and "Feathered: A Year on the Baseball Beat".
Jim Kaplan is the author of 19 books, including 13 on baseball as well as Historic America: New England, Lefty Grove: American Original, and Golden Years of Baseball. He graduated from Yale University and earned a master's from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism. After three years of covering sports for the Minneapolis Star, he spent 16 years at Sports Illustrated then turned to freelance writing. He divides his time between Northampton and Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts. Greg Spahn is the only child of Hall of Fame pitcher Warren Spahn and this is his first book. He lives in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780910137805 |
| ISBN 10 | 0910137803 |
| Title | Coal Miner's Son |
| Author | Jim Kaplan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Nebraska Press |
| Year published | 2000-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 315 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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