Indian Summer: The Forgotten Story of Louis Sockalexis, the First Native American in Major League Baseball - Rilegato

McDonald, Brian

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ISBN 10: 1579545874 ISBN 13: 9781579545871

Casa editrice: Rodale Pr, 2003

Riassunto

Traces the brief professional baseball career of Penobscot Native American Louis Francis Sockalexis, discussing his active childhood, the impact of alcoholism and racism on his career, and how he posthumously inspired the name of the Cleveland Indians. 50,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“A monumental and valuable piece of previously untold baseball history. A must for any student of the game.” —Bill Madden, baseball columnist for the New York Daily News and co-author of Zim: A Baseball Life

“Through the years I had heard of the East Coast Indian who was a great athlete, but I didn't know his name, his sport or tribe, or when he was active. Sockalexis was a baseball star when my father was an impressionable teenager, and must have been a role model.... I would like to see this book in every tribal school and library.” —Grace Thorpe, Native American activist and daughter of Jim Thorpe

L'autore:

Brian McDonald's first book, My Father's Gun, received critical acclaim as a "lucid" (The New Yorker) memoir of three generations of Irish-American police officers. It served as the basis of a two-hour docu-movie that aired on the History Channel in 2002. McDonald graduated from the Columbia School of Journalism and has written for the New York Times, Reader's Digest, and Gourmet magazine, among other publications. He lives in New York City.

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• Editore: Rodale Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1579545874
• ISBN 13: 9781579545871
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256