A Biography of Wartime Baseball's Leading Slugger
This book provides an introduction to the elements of poetry, formulates a series of contexts for the interpretation of poems, and offers a substantial anthology. Its purpose is to enable students to read poems with understanding and pleasure and ...
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Robert A. Greenberg is a 1974 graduate of Washington College, Nicholsons alma mater, and a member of SABR. A Circuit Court judge in Montgomery County, Maryland, he is married and has three children.
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. On Fancy Farm 2. Three Sport Man 3. Return from Annapolis 4. Mr. Mack and the As 5. Life in the Bushes 6. Back to the Big Leagues 7. Catalina to Chicago 8. The Last Prewar Season 9. Baseball, As Usual 10. Coming Into His Own 11. Swish and His Fans 12. The Supreme Compliment 13. The Year of the Billy Goat Curse 14. Benched 15. The Cubs in Decline 16. Farewell to the Windy City 17. The City of Brotherly Love 18. The Whiz Kids 19. The Giants Win the Pennant 20. Shakeup on the Phillies 21. Is There Life After Baseball? Epilogue AppendixBill Nicholsons Regular Season Career Statistics and World Series Record Chapter Notes Bibliography Index