Description: Further DetailsTitle: Hugh CaseyCondition: NewEAN: 9781442277595ISBN: 9781442277595Publisher: Rowman & LittlefieldFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/13/2017Item Height: 239mmItem Length: 157mmItem Width: 30mmItem Weight: 644gAuthor: Lyle SpatzLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: The Triumphs and Tragedies of a Brooklyn DodgerISBN-10: 1442277599Description: Hugh Casey was one of the most colorful members of the iconic Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1940s, a team that took part in four great pennant races, the first National League playoff series, and two exciting World Series over the course of Casey’s career. That famed team included many outsized personalities, including executives Larry MacPhail and Branch Rickey, manager Leo Durocher, and players like Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Dixie Walker, Joe Medwick, and Pete Reiser.In Hugh Casey: The Triumphs and Tragedies of a Brooklyn Dodger, Lyle Spatz details Casey’s life and career, from his birth in Atlanta to his suicide in that same city thirty-seven years later. Spatz includes such moments as Casey’s famous “pitch that got away” in Game Four of the 1941 World Series, the numerous brawls and beanball wars in which Casey was frequently involved, and the Southern-born Casey’s reaction to Jackie Robinson joining the Dodgers. Spatz also reveals how Casey helped to redefine the role of the relief pitcher, twice leading the National League in saves and twice finishing second—if saves had been an official statistic during his lifetime.While this book focuses on Casey’s baseball career in Brooklyn, Spatz also covers Casey’s often-tragic personal life. He not only ran into trouble with the IRS, he also got into a fistfight with Ernest Hemingway and was charged in a paternity suit that was decided against him. Featuring personal interviews with Casey’s son and with former teammate Carl Erskine, this book will fascinate and inform fans of the Brooklyn Dodgers and baseball historians alike.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Sports & HobbiesTopic: History, BiographyRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Hugh Casey
Title: Hugh Casey
EAN: 9781442277595
ISBN: 9781442277595
Release Date: 04/13/2017
Release Year: 2017
Subtitle: The Triumphs and Tragedies of a Brooklyn Dodger
ISBN-10: 1442277599
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Hugh Casey : the Triumphs and Tragedies of a Brooklyn Dodger
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Topic: Baseball / History, Baseball / General, Sports
Item Height: 1.2 in
Publication Year: 2017
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 22.8 Oz
Item Length: 9.4 in
Author: Lyle Spatz
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Hardcover
