mans own story de musial stan told bob broeg (5 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. UNCLIPPED DJ, CLEAN COPY.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Book Club Edition. One of the greatest Baseball Hall of Famers tells his own story to Hall of Fame sportswriter Bob Broeg. Book Club Edition. The book is in very good condition, the non clipped Dust Jacket has some chips and tears, is now in a mylar protector. I have over 200 baseball biographies and around 125 books written by and about sportswriters in stock. Discounts available when you purchase multiple items on the same order.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. First edition. Slightly spine-cocked, else very good or better in near very good dust jacket with a creased tear and some very faint stains. Light dampstain on rear gutter and a couple of nominal stains on the rear board, very good lacking the dust jacket. Signed by Musial: "Best Wishes, Stan Musial" and also signed by co-author Bob Broeg.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. Ozzie Sweet (Color photograph on front of dust jac (illustrateur). The format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8.5 inches. vi, [2], 328 pages. Illustrations. Appendix. Tabular data. Index. The dust jacket has a large scuff on the front, partially on the image of Stan Musial. Back panel of dust jacket has Stan Musial's Lifetime Batting record with the St. Louis Cardinals (compiled by The Sporting News). Inscribed by the author on the fep. The inscription reads To Frank Best Wishes from your friend Stan Musial. Stanley Frank Musial (born Stanislaw Franciszek Musial; November 21, 1920 January 19, 2013), nicknamed "Stan the Man", was an American professional baseball player. Musial spent 22 seasons as an outfielder and first baseman in Major League Baseball (MLB), playing for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1941 to 1944 and from 1946 to 1963. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969. Over his career, Musial batted .331 and set National League (NL) records for career hits (3,630) (1,815 each at home and on the road), runs batted in (1,951), games played (3,026), at bats (10,972), runs scored (1,949) and doubles (725). A seven-time batting champion, he was named the National League's (NL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) three times and was on three World Series championship teams. When he retired, he held or shared 17 major league records and 29 National League records. He shares the major league record for the most All-Star Games played (24) with Hank Aaron and Willie Mays. Musial was selected for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999. In 2011, President Barack Obama presented Musial with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Robert William Patrick Broeg (March 18, 1918 October 28, 2005) was an American sportswriter and newspaper editor who covered the St. Louis Cardinals for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for forty years. After the war, Broeg joined the St. Louis Star-Times[3] and then the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1945. He was reportedly the most prolific writer in the history of the Post-Dispatch. He penned his final Post-Dispatch column in 2004. he helped Bob Gibson win the 1967 World Series. Gibson was unable to get breakfast at the Cardinals' hotel in Boston, so Broeg delivered a ham and egg sandwich. Gibson pitched a complete, winning game. Broeg is known for coining the nickname "Stan the Man" for Cardinal baseball player Stan Musial, working on the Hall of Fame causes of Cardinals Red Schoendienst, Enos Slaughter and Chick Hafey and helping to devise, and successfully push for the first pension plan for veteran major-league players. Broeg published 20 books on sports. He also wrote a column for The Sporting News for decades. Broeg said he wished his epitaph to read, "Hopefully, he was fair, as in just, not as in mediocre." Bob Broeg died several days after the final game of the 2005 World Series. Autobiography written by Stan Musial as told to Bob Broeg of the St Louis Post-Dispatch in 1965. In these pages Stan tells of the tough early days of the minor leagues, when he was supporting a wife and baby and working winters in his home town, Donora, Pennsylvania. He describes his spectacular rise to the Majors, and peppers the story of his career with anecdotes of the great players, managers, owners, and teams. First Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing.

Hardcover. Etat : Very good. First Edition. 328p octavo, illustrated. Light dampstain on rear gutter and a couple of nominal stains on the rear board, very good lacking the dust jacket . Inscribed by co-author Broeg to vasketball Hall of Famer Jerry Lucas: "Jan. 1965 To Jerry Lucas, in admiration o an All-American boy who quickly proved he could be first rate in a man's game. Very best, sincerely, Bob Broeg. "Following Broeg's Inscription, the book is Inscribed by Musial: Best wishes to a great athlete and sportsman - Stan Musial" A terrific association copy connecting two Hall of Famers.