Uncle Robbie - Softcover

Kavanagh, Jack; Macht, Norman L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0910137765 ISBN 13: 9780910137768

Verlag: Society for American Baseball Research, 2000

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"It is doubtful that baseball ever produced a more colorful figure than the esteemed Wilbert Robinson. Like Falstaff, he was not only witty himself but the cause of wit in others. His conversation was a continuous flow of homely philosophy, baseball lore, and good humor. . . . He knew baseball as the spotted setter knows the secrets of quail hunting, by instinct and experience."-New York Times * New York Times *

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Hall of Fame member Wilbert Robinson began his career as a catcher. As a Baltimore Oriole in the 1890s the hard-nosed but congenial receiver joined John McGraw, Wee Willie Keeler, and other greats on the roughest team of the game's toughest era. He went on to make a reputation with McGraw's New York Giants as a great developer of pitchers. Subsequently he took over the Brooklyn Dodgers, quickly turning them into pennant winners and gradually becoming the borough's beloved Uncle Robbie.

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• Verlag: Society for American Baseball Research
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0910137765
• ISBN 13: 9780910137768
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208