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Item Details
Title:
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WHITEY FORD
A BIOGRAPHY |
By: |
Miles Coverdale |
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Paperback |
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£29.95 |
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ISBN 10: |
0786425148 |
ISBN 13: |
9780786425143 |
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Publisher: |
MCFARLAND & CO INC |
Pub. date: |
1 July, 2006 |
Pages: |
249 |
Description: |
Delves into the life and baseball career of Whitey Ford, the Hall of Fame left-hander who helped the Yankees win 11 pennants and six world championships. His story is detailed here with play-by-play action and personal anecdotes. Seven appendices offer Ford's career statistics and compare him to other great pitchers. |
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Called the "Chairman of the Board" because of his remarkable control in big-money games, Eddie "Whitey" Ford still holds the record for World Series wins (10), and was Casey Stengel's ace during much of the Yankees' historic mid-century pennant streak. Off the mound, Whitey's carousing with Mickey Mantle was legendary, and he, in many ways, symbolizes the excesses and good fortunes of the Yankees during that era - living hard and winning often. This book delves into the life and baseball career of Whitey Ford, the Hall of Fame left-hander who helped the Yankees win 11 pennants and six world championships. After a childhood in the New York sandlots, he quickly worked his way through the Yankees farm system and, when called up in 1950, won nine straight in a pennant race and then won the final game of the World Series sweep of the Phillies. He would go on to pitch for 16 seasons - all of them with New York - and retire as the winningest pitcher in franchise history. His story is detailed here with a generous helping of play-by-play action and personal anecdotes. Seven appendices offer Ford's career statistics and compare him to other great pitchers, past and present. |
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photographs, notes, bibliography, index |
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US |
Imprint: |
McFarland & Co Inc |
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