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Author D'Amore, Jonathan

Title Rogers Hornsby : a biography / Jonathan D'Amore
Published Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 161 pages) : illustrations
Series Baseball's all-time greatest hitters
Baseball's all-time greatest hitters.
Contents Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chronology; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Stockyards and Sandlots; CHAPTER 2 Growing into the National League; CHAPTER 3 Money; CHAPTER 4 The Rajah; CHAPTER 5 A Championship; CHAPTER 6 "New York's New Babe Ruth"; CHAPTER 7 Peaks and Valleys; CHAPTER 8 The Great Depression; CHAPTER 9 TO Baseball's Hinterlands and Back; CHAPTER 10 Hornsby'S Bend; CHAPTER 11 Making of a Legend; Appendix: Rogers Hornsby's Career and World Series Statistics; Selected Bibliography; Index
Summary Traces the life and baseball career of Rogers Hornsby, who holds one of the highest career batting averages
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-155) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Hornsby, Rogers, 1896-1963.
SUBJECT Hornsby, Rogers, 1896-1963 fast
Subject Baseball players -- United States -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Baseball -- History.
Baseball players
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004053047
ISBN 9780313062070
0313062072
9780313328701
0313328706