Drama and Pride in the Gateway City: The 1964 St. Louis Cardinals (Memorable Teams in Baseball History) - Softcover

Nowlin, Bill; Society For American Baseball Researc...

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803243723 ISBN 13: 9780803243729

Verlag: University of Nebraska Press, 2013

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"Drama and Pride in the Gateway City is an invaluable contribution to baseball history and research because it presents for the first time all of the team's players, coaches, and selected writers, announcers, front-office personnel together and tells their unique story, indeed giving them a voice."-Gregory H. Wolf, Journal of Sport History -- Gregory H. Wolf * Journal of Sport History * "[Drama and Pride in the Gateway City] should find its way to the shelves of anyone seriously interested in the history of the St. Louis Cardinals."-Roger Launius's Blog * Roger Launius's Blog * "However you use this book, the important thing is this: it belongs in a place of honor on your shelf of Cardinal literature. To paraphrase Mr. Buck, "It's a winner!""-C70 at the Bat * C70 at the Bat *

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By 1964 the storied St. Louis Cardinals had gone seventeen years without so much as a pennant. Things began to turn around in 1953, when August A. Busch Jr. bought the team and famously asked where all the black players were. Under the leadership of men like Bing Devine and Johnny Keane, the Cardinals began signing talented players regardless of color, and slowly their star started to rise again. Drama and Pride in the Gateway City commemorates the team that Bing Devine built, the 1964 team that prevailed in one of the tightest three-way pennant races of all time and then went on to win the World Series, beating the New York Yankees in the full seven games. All the men come alive in these pages-pitchers Ray Sadecki and Bob Gibson, players Lou Brock, Curt Flood, and Bobby Shantz, manager Johnny Keane, his coaches, the Cardinals' broadcasters, and Bill White, who would one day run the entire National League-along with the dramatic events that made the 1964 Cardinals such a memorable club in a memorable year.

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• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0803243723
• ISBN 13: 9780803243729
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 378
• Herausgeber: Stahl John Harry