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Mike Torrez
- A Baseball Biography
Engelsk Paperback
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Mike Torrez
- A Baseball Biography
Engelsk Paperback

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The history of baseball is filled with players whose careers were defined by one bad play. Mike Torrez is remembered as the pitcher who gave up the infamous three-run homer to Bucky "Bleeping" Dent in the 1978 playoffs tie-breaker between the Red Sox and Yankees. Yet Torrez''s life added up to much more than his worst moment on the mound. Coming from a vibrant Mexican American community that settled in Topeka, Kansas, in the early 1900s, he made it to the Majors by his own talent and efforts, with the help of an athletic program for Mexican youth that spread through the Midwest, Texas and Mexico during the 20th century. He was in the middle of many transformative events of the 1970s--such as the rise of free agency--and was an ethnic role model in the years before the "Fernandomania" of 1981. This book covers Torrez''s life and career as the winningest Mexican American pitcher in Major League history.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
268
ISBN-13:
9780786496327
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0786496320
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
12 aug 2016
Længde:
14mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
McFarland & Co Inc
Oplagsdato:
12 aug 2016
Forfatter(e):
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