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Big Klu: The Baseball Life of Ted Kluszewski by Cook, William A.
by Cook, William A. | PB | Good
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- Condition
- Good
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- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
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- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780786469994
- Subject Area
- Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreation
- Publication Name
- Big Klu : the Baseball Life of Ted Kluszewski
- Publisher
- Mcfarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Baseball / History, Baseball / General, General
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.4 in
- Item Weight
- 9.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 196 Pages
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During the mid-1950s, an unlikely star stood alongside baseball standouts Mickey Mantle, Henry Aaron and Willie Mays--a slugger with a funny name and muscles so bulging that he had to cut the sleeves off his uniform to swing freely. Ted Kluszewski played little baseball in his youth, making a name for himself instead as a hard-hitting football player at Indiana University before showing potential on the diamond and being signed by the Cincinnati Reds. Between 1953 and 1956, no other player in major league baseball hit more home runs than Kluszewski. If not for a back injury, he might have gone down in major league history as one its greatest players. With detailed statistics from both his football and baseball careers, this biography chronicles the unusual odyssey that took Kluszewski to the big leagues and ultimately made him a ballgame icon in the 1950s.
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Publisher
Mcfarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
ISBN-10
0786469994
ISBN-13
9780786469994
eBay Product ID (ePID)
112562396
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
196 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Big Klu : the Baseball Life of Ted Kluszewski
Publication Year
2012
Subject
Baseball / History, Baseball / General, General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Biography & Autobiography, Sports & Recreation
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
9.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2012-034490
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"William a Cook's excellent biography of this gentle giant sheds light on Kluszewski's life as a standout football player at Indiana University in the mid 1940s and his slow rise to, and precipitous fall from, stardom and notoriety in baseball. Thoroughly researched and extremely well written, Big Klu: The Baseball Life of Ted Kluszewski presents the slugger as a reluctant star whose sheer size was often the source of unreasonable expectations. Cook begins the narrative with an insightful chapter about Kluszewski's unexpected career as a professional athlete. A thoroughly enjoyable read...full-length biography"- Journal of Sport History ., "William a Cook's excellent biography of this gentle giant sheds light on Kluszewski's life as a standout football player at Indiana University in the mid 1940s and his slow rise to, and precipitous fall from, stardom and notoriety in baseball. Thoroughly researched and extremely well written, Big Klu: The Baseball Life of Ted Kluszewski presents the slugger as a reluctant star whose sheer size was often the source of unreasonable expectations. Cook begins the narrative with an insightful chapter about Kluszewski's unexpected career as a professional athlete. A thoroughly enjoyable read...full-length biography"-- Journal of Sport History .
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
796.357092 B
Lc Classification Number
Gv865.K58c66 2012
Table of Content
Table of Contents Introduction 1. From Argo to Bloomington 2. Breaking into the Big Leagues 3. A Rising Star 4. Big Klu and the Rajah 5. Kluszewski Becomes a Baseball Icon 6. Kluszewski and the Redlegs Almost Win a Pennant 7. Kluszewski's Aching Back 8. Traded to Pittsburgh 9. World Series Hero in Chicago 10. Career Twilight in L.A. 11. Kluszewski and the Big Red Machine 12. Demoted but Forever Loyal Appendices: A: Indiana University/Big Ten Football Records and Data, 1944 and 1945 B: Ted Kluszewski Statistics C: Other Statistics and Data Chapter Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2012
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