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02566aam a22003138i 4500 001 9E819346ED3911ECB65603C543ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220616010025 008 210611s2022 mdu 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021026100 020 $a 1538156962 020 $a 9781538156964 035 $a (OCoLC)1252846203 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d TP7 $d BUP $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 100 1 $a Rosengren, John, $e author. 245 10 $a Classic baseball : $b timeless tales, immortal moments / $c John Rosengren. 263 $a 2202 264 1 $a Lanham, Maryland : $b Rowman & Littlefield, $c [2022] 300 $a xi, [157] pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes index. 505 0 $a Chapter one: Immortal moments -- The reconciliation of Juan Marichal and John Roseboro -- On the way to 714 -- Harvey Haddix's heartbreak -- Chapter two: Baseball during wartime -- Terror in the trenches -- Equal opportunity -- The breatest comeback of all-time -- Opening day: 1946 -- Chapter three: Personalities -- The legend of La Tortuga -- Hank Greenberg: superstar and scapegoat -- The great Josh Gibson -- Tony O -- The shining of Mark Hamburger -- They call him killer -- Chapter four: Baltimore chops -- Chasing a-rod's three-thousandth hit -- The irreverent relics of the baseball reliquary -- A game of their own -- Take me out to the old ball game -- Chapter five: for love of the game -- Cooperstown or bust -- My father's glove -- Field of dreams -- Walter Mitty meets Bert Blyleven -- Chapter six: In Jackie's memory -- The day the klan played ball -- Enter Elston Howard, the Yankees' Jackie Robinson eight years late -- Crossing the line -- Pioneers of the Negro Leagues -- Chapter seven: The World Series -- Kirby Puckett carries the Twins -- A fall classic comedy -- Sandy Koufax's Yom Kippur decisision. 520 $a "This collection of timeless baseball stories can be read again and again for its poignancy, humor, and celebration of the national pastime, whether it be John Roseboro forgiving Juan Marichal for clubbing him in the head with a bat, Elston Howard integrating the Yankees, or baseball played on snowshoes in a remote Wisconsin town"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Baseball $v Anecdotes. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Rosengren, John. $t Classic baseball $d Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2022 $z 9781538156971 $w (DLC) 2021026101 941 $a 1 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20220616010228.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9E819346ED3911ECB65603C543ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b BUPInitiate Another SILO Locator Search