Mike Torrez: A Baseball Biography - Couverture souple

Iber, Jorge

 
9780786496327: Mike Torrez: A Baseball Biography
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0786496320 ISBN 13 : 9780786496327
Editeur : McFarland & Co Inc, 2016

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jorge Iber is a professor of history at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. His research focuses on the role of Latinos/-as in U.S. sports. He is the author of numerous works on this topic

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Éditeur
McFarland & Co Inc
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0786496320
ISBN 13 
9780786496327
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
268
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Personne responsable
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