Batting Cleanup Bill Conlin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments Foreword Dick Schnap Introduction Kevin Kerrane 1. King of the World Some Royal Bounties * Pardons to Ponder * A Decree on Names 2. The Sixties A Bad Day for Conservatives * Banks Near Death After Arena Kayo * Hayward Rants, Raves After Arena Victory * Phillies Enter No-Man's Land * Fear and Fatigue * Forgetting How * Cheers for New Champs * Now We All Must Believe * Detoured from Greatness 3. Gallery Hamlet in Pinstripes * Poor Old Hughie * Shadows of the Game * Height of Concern * One Slump Pete Won't Snap * He Made a Difference * He Crossed That Bridge * The Sphinx of the Schuylkill * A Higher Perspective * Remembering Mickey * Last of the True Dodgers * Double X 4. The Seventies A Shadow, Finally Sliding to Rest * The Night Fans Tore the Park Apart * K's and O's * Red Eyes and Black Eyes * Fisk Gives Red Sox Another Shot * A Selection of Ozarkisms * The Mouse That Roared * The Ten-Minute Collapse * The Moon Is Blue * Homer Ends Odyssey, 23-22 * The Ghost of Clemente 5. Hell's Team 6. The Eighties Dealt for Peanuts * An Obscene Loss * The Catch * Corrales Out of the Lineup * Morgan's Bat Comes of Age * Report from Earth * A Postcard from Spring Training * Sincere Appreciation * Soul on Ice * Spinks Blinks * Making Money the Old-Fashioned Way * Gibson Writers New Chapter in Series Lore * 'It's an Earthquake' 7. Thumbs Down Mooning Miami * Ross Perot's Dumber Brother * Schottzie 02 Could Run Reds Better * The Tonya Chronicles * A New York State of Mind * Now We've Seen the Real Rollie * Home of the Boobirds * Stereophonic Boredom 8. The Nineties No More Tears * When Monica Met Steffi * Yo, Fidel, You're in my Seat! * Ear Whacks * Classic Hurler Caps Classic Series * Heartbreak and Class Counsel Phils Keep Chins Clean for Top Doc * In a Remote Sense, I Can Be Like Mike * Watching Mitch Is Sheer Torture * One-Armed Man Was Giant-Killer * Lousy Judging Comes in Paris * Warriors Recapture the Magic * My Son, the Replacement * A Little Hot Under the Facemasks 9. Loving the Game The Not-So-Lost Art of Cheating * Pitching and Moaning * What's It Called Again, Mr. Ashburn? * John Kruck's Top 10 List * Popping the Cork * An X-Rated Baseball Documentary * Ripken Is What Baseball, America Were * In a Dream World, by Dick Young (as told to Bill Conlin)

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"For years, sitting next to him on The Sports Reporters, all I got from Bill Conlin was the spit of his opinions in my ear. His writing is far less messy. It's also brash, charming, intelligent, historical, and at times almost elegant. Batting Cleanup is as big as the man himself, and just as impressive." Mitch Albom, nationally syndicated columnist, Detroit Free Press "Bill Conlin should be in the baseball writers' wing of the Hall of Fame." Jerome Holtzman, Chicago Tribune "Philadelphians won't boo this book. They'll buy this book, because Bill Conlin's obviously a brother the City of Brotherly Love loves." Mike Downey, Los Angeles Times "Conlin is not a sportswriter. Rather, he is a talented craftsman who has chosen The World of Perspiring Arts for his text. There is a difference. If there is a Conlin cult, count me in." Blackie Sherrod, Dallas Morning News