Leo Durocher: Baseball's Prodigal Son
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (815 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1541459865 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 156 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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For more than forty years, he was at the forefront of the game, with a Zelig-like ability to be present as a player or manager for some of the greatest teams and defining baseball moments of the twentieth century. On occasion he would share the limelight, but only with Hollywood friends such as actor Danny Kaye, tough-guy and sometime roommate George Raft, Frank Sinatra, and his third wife, movie star Laraine Day. Leo Durocher (1906-1991) was baseball's all-time leading cocky, flamboyant, and galvanizing character, casting a shadow across several eras, from the time of Babe Ruth to the Space Age Astrodome, from Prohibition through the Vietnam Wa
His first biography, Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick, was awarded the Jerome Holtzman Award from the Chicago Baseball Museum and the Casey Award from Spitball magazine.Barry Abrams has narrated and produced audiobooks for a variety of publishers. Since 2012, he has also hosted and produced ESPN's In the
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Bill Emblom said Durocher and Controversy Went Hand in Hand. In the interest of full disclosure the author provided me with an advance copy in exchange for a fair review of this book.There have been biographies on Leo Durocher within the past several years notably by Ed Linn and Gerald Eskenazi but I believe this most recent one by Paul Dickson is the most thorough and in-depth one of the three. Leo's baseball career spanned several decades briefly beginning with the Yankees . Durocher had it, and threw it all away: A Moral Tale. Leo Durocher is an iconic figure from the history of the National Game. This is an excellent biography of the guy, but I have to say, he is no Gil Hodges (and, according to Charles Leerhsen in his book Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty, he was not even as "nice" as Ty Cobb!) ! What is great about this book is Dickson's ability to place Durocher within the context of baseball's Golden Age. Durocher led an amazing life, from. Did We Know Leo Durocher at All? Michael Griswold Leo Durocher Baseball’s Prodigal Son talks about the often controversial mostly baseball life of long time major league manager Leo Durocher. He was a complicated man: generous to some of his players, supportive of the integration of major league baseball and definitely an innovator in major league baseball. But he was also combative with umpires and other managers, had a cruel streak towards his players and h