Thomas Wolf Called Shot: Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932 9781496234766

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Автор: Thomas Wolf
Название: Called Shot: Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932
ISBN: 9781496234766
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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ISBN-10: 1496234766
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 412
Вес: 0.52 кг.
Дата издания: 01.04.2023
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 22 photographs, 6 tables, index
Размер: 228 x 246 x 25
Ключевые слова: Baseball,History of sport, SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / History
Подзаголовок: Babe ruth, the chicago cubs, and the unforgettable major league baseball season of 1932
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Named Best Baseball Book of 2020 by Sports Collectors Digest
2021 SABR Seymour Medal Finalist

In the summer of 1932, at the beginning of the turbulent decade that would remake America, baseball fans were treated to one of the most thrilling seasons in the history of the sport. As the nation drifted deeper into the Great Depression and reeled from social unrest, baseball was a diversion for a troubled country—and yet the world of baseball was marked by the same edginess that pervaded the national scene.

On-the-field fights were as common as double plays. Amid the National League pennant race, Cubs’ shortstop Billy Jurges was shot by showgirl Violet Popovich in a Chicago hotel room. When the regular season ended, the Cubs and Yankees clashed in what would be Babe Ruth’s last appearance in the fall classic. After the Cubs lost the first two games in New York, the series resumed in Chicago at Wrigley Field, with Democratic presidential candidate Franklin Roosevelt cheering for the visiting Yankees from the box seats behind the Yankees’ dugout.

In the top of the fifth inning the game took a historic turn. As Ruth was jeered mercilessly by Cubs players and fans, he gestured toward the outfield and then blasted a long home run. After Ruth circled the bases, Roosevelt exclaimed, “Unbelievable!” Ruth’s homer set off one of baseball’s longest-running and most intense debates: did Ruth, in fact, call his famous home run?

Rich with historical context and detail, The Called Shot dramatizes the excitement of a baseball season during one of America’s most chaotic summers.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Cast of Characters

Prologue: A Broken Umbrella in a Rainstorm

1. Rogers Hornsby

2. William Wrigley

3. Spring Training

4. Opening Day

5. The Math Wizard

6. The Rivals

Called Shot: Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932, Thomas Wolf