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Author | : Bill Pennington |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 565 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0544022092 |
From an award-winning New York Times sports columnist, the definitive biography of one of baseball's most celebrated, mercurial, and misunderstood figures--legendary manager and baseball genius, Billy Martin
Author | : Dale Tafoya |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2020-03-24 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1493043633 |
In the early 1970s, the Oakland Athletics became only the second team in major-league baseball history to win three consecutive World Series championships. But as the decade came to a close, the A's were in free fall, having lost 108 games in 1979 while drawing just 307,000 fans. Free agency had decimated the A’s, and the team’s colorful owner, Charlie Finley, was looking for a buyer. First, though, he had to bring fans back to the Oakland Coliseum. Enter Billy Martin, the hometown boy from West Berkeley. In Billy Ball, sportswriter Dale Tafoya describes what, at the time, seemed like a match made in baseball heaven. The A’s needed a fiery leader to re-ignite interest in the team. Martin needed a job after his second stint as manager of the New York Yankees came to an abrupt end. Based largely on interviews with former players, team executives, and journalists, Billy Ball captures Martin’s homecoming to the Bay area in 1980, his immediate embrace by Oakland fans, and the A’s return to playoff baseball. Tafoya describes the reputation that had preceded Martin—one that he fully lived up to—as the brawling, hard-drinking baseball savant with a knack for turning bad teams around. In Oakland, his aggressive style of play came to be known as Billy Ball. A’s fans and the media loved it. But, in life and in baseball, all good things must come to an end. Tafoya chronicles Martin’s clash with the new A’s management and the siren song of the Yankees that lured the manager back to New York in 1983. Still, as the book makes clear, the magical turnaround of the A’s has never been forgotten in Oakland. Neither have Billy Martin and Billy Ball. During a time of economic uncertainty and waning baseball interest in Oakland, Billy Ball filled the stands, rejuvenated fans, and saved professional baseball in the city.
Author | : Billy Martin |
Publisher | : Dell |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1981-05-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780440162292 |
Author | : David Falkner |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-07-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781439181256 |
Description: David Falkner, highly acclaimed author of The Short Season, pens the first full biography of one of the most controversial baseball figures to date, Billy Martin. Falkner uncovers the real Billy Martin as those who loved, hated, hired, and fired him knew him to be, revealing how Martin cam to be a larger-than-life figure.
Author | : Mike Shropshire |
Publisher | : Diversion Books |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2014-03-25 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1626812616 |
“A funny, revealing, Ball Four–like romp through mid-seventies baseball” from the longtime sports columnist and author of The Last Real Season (Booklist). You think your team is bad? In this “disastrously hilarious” work on one of the most tortured franchises in baseball, one reporter discovers that nine innings can feel like an eternity (USA Today). In early 1973, gonzo sportswriter Mike Shropshire agreed to cover the Texas Rangers for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, not realizing that the Rangers were arguably the worst team in baseball history. Seasons in Hell is a riotous, candid, irreverent behind-the-scenes account in the tradition of The Bronx Zoo and Ball Four, following the Texas Rangers from Whitey Herzog’s reign in 1973 through Billy Martin’s tumultuous tenure. Offering wonderful perspectives on dozens of unique (and likely never-to-be-seen-again) baseball personalities, Seasons in Hell recounts some of the most extreme characters ever to play the game and brings to life the no-holds-barred culture of major league baseball in the mid-seventies. “The single funniest sports book I have ever read.”—Don Imus “The locker-room shenanigans of a lousy team of the 1970s.”—Publishers Weekly
Author | : Mike Rowe |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2021-10-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1982131470 |
Emmy-award winning gadfly Rowe presents a ridiculously entertaining, seriously fascinating collection of his favorite episodes from America's #1 short-form podcast, The Way I Heard It, along with a host of memories, ruminations, illustrations, and insights.
Author | : Poppy Brite |
Publisher | : Dell |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2010-11-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307768295 |
Poppy Z. Brite re-imagines the haunted house novel, creating a fresh, sensual, and totally original reading experience. IT'S A PASSION. IT'S AN ART. IT'S THE ONLY WAY OUT. . . In the house on Violin Road he found the bodies of his brother, his mother, and the man who killed them both—his father. From the house on Violin Road, in Missing Mile, North Carolina, Trevor McGee ran for his sanity and his soul, after his famous cartoonist father had exploded inexplicably into murder and suicide. Now Trevor is back. In the company of a New Orleans computer hacker on the run from the law, Trevor has returned to face the ghosts that still live on Violin Road, to find the demons that drove his father to murder his family—and worse, to spare one of his sons. . . . But as Trevor begins to draw his own cartoon strip, he loses himself in a haze of lines and art and thoughts of the past, the haunting begins. Trevor and his lover plunge into a cyber-maze of cartoons, ghosts, and terror that will lead either to understanding—true understanding—or to a blood-raining repetition of the past. . . . Praise for Drawing Blood “Electrifying . . . explosive lyricism . . . [a] soul-sucking antagonist . . . rich background descriptions. That there is a Brite future never doubt.”—Kirkus Reviews “Exotica . . . disaffected youth . . . a spicy gumbo of sub-cultural hipness simmered in a cauldron of modern horror fiction.”—Fangoria “Darker and more exotic than Anne Rice, more cerebral than Stephen King . . . Horror is rarely this good.”—Echo
Author | : Roger Kahn |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780151006281 |
Recounts one of the great summers of baseball history, 1978--the year the Yankees won the World Series after a tumultuous season.
Author | : Bill Martin |
Publisher | : Open Court |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2015-12-14 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0812699394 |
In Avant Rock,, music writer Bill Martin explores how avant-garde rock emerged from the social and political upheaval of the sixties. He covers the music from its early stages, revealing its influences outside of rock, from musicians such as John Cage and Cecil Taylor, to those more closely related to rock like James Brown and Parliament/ Funkadelic. Martin follows the development of avant rock through the sixties, when it was accepted into the mainstream, with bands like the later Beatles, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, The Velvet Underground, King Crimson, and Brian Eno. His narration takes us into the present, with an analysis of contemporary artists who continue to innovate and push the boundaries of rock, such as Stereolab, Mouse on Mars, Sonic Youth, and Jim O'Rourke. Martin critiques the work of all important avant rock bands and individual artists, from the well-known to the more obscure, and provides an annotated discography
Author | : Marty Appel |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 705 |
Release | : 2014-05-06 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 1620406810 |
The definitive history of the world's greatest baseball team—with an all new afterword by the author.