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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2006
- ISBN
- 9780743217811
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
0743217810
ISBN-13
9780743217811
eBay Product ID (ePID)
48254559
Product Key Features
Book Title
Clemente : the Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Topic
Baseball / General, General, Sports
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
9.4 in
Item Weight
24.6 Oz
Item Length
1.3 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2006-042235
Reviews
"An astonishingly good book.... A triumph, a classic American biography."-- Robert W. Creamer,The Washington Post Book World, "An astonishingly good book.... A triumph, a classic American biography." -- Robert W. Creamer, "The Washington Post Book World", "Forges a near-perfect synthesis of fine writing and fascinating material. May be the best sports biography ever published." -- Ron Fimrite, "Sports Illustrated", "Forges a near-perfect synthesis of fine writing and fascinating material. May be the best sports biography ever published."-- Ron Fimrite,Sports Illustrated, "An astonishingly good book.... A triumph, a classic American biography." -- Robert W. Creamer, The Washington Post Book World, "An astonishingly good book.... A triumph, a classic American biography." -- Robert W. Creamer,The Washington Post Book World
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
796.357092 B
Table Of Content
Contents Memory and Myth1. Something That Never Ends2. Where Momen Came From3. Dream of Deeds4. The Residue of Design5. ¡Arriba! ¡Arriba!6. Alone at the Miracle7. Pride and Prejudice8. Fever9. Passion10. A Circular Stage11. El Día Más Grande12. Tip of the Cap13. Temblor14. Cockroach Corner15. December 3116. Out of the SeaMyth and MemoryAcknowledgmentsNotesAppendixSelected BibliographyIndex
Synopsis
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "When Pride Still Mattered" comes a book destined to become a modern classic--a full-scale biography of great baseball player and humanitarian Roberto Clemente, who lived, played, and died with enduring passion and grace. of photos., From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of When Pride Still Mattered comes a book destined to become a modern classic--a full-scale biography of great baseball player and humanitarian Roberto Clemente, who lived, played, and died with enduring passion and grace. of photos., On New Year's Eve 1972, following eighteen magnificent seasons in the major leagues, Roberto Clemente died a hero's death, killed in a plane crash as he attempted to deliver food and medical supplies to Nicaragua after a devastating earthquake. David Maraniss now brings the great baseball player brilliantly back to life inClemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero,a book destined to become a modern classic. Much like his acclaimed biography of Vince Lombardi,When Pride Still Mattered,Maraniss uses his narrative sweep and meticulous detail to capture the myth and a real man.Anyone who saw Clemente, as he played with a beautiful fury, will never forget him. He was a work of art in a game too often defined by statistics. During his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates, he won four batting titles and led his team to championships in 1960 and 1971, getting a hit in all fourteen World Series games in which he played. His career ended with three-thousand hits, the magical three-thousandth coming in his final at-bat, and he and the immortal Lou Gehrig are the only players to have the five-year waiting period waived so they could be enshrined in the Hall of Fame immediately after their deaths.There is delightful baseball here, including thrilling accounts of the two World Series victories of Clemente's underdog Pittsburgh Pirates, but this is far more than just another baseball book. Roberto Clemente was that rare athlete who rose above sports to become a symbol of larger themes. Born near the canebrakes of rural Carolina, Puerto Rico, on August 18, 1934, at a time when there were no blacks or Puerto Ricans playing organized ball in the United States, Clemente went on to become the greatest Latino player in the major leagues. He was, in a sense, the Jackie Robinson of the Spanish-speaking world, a ballplayer of determination, grace, and dignity who paved the way and set the highest standard for waves of Latino players who followed in later generations and who now dominate the game.The Clemente that Maraniss evokes was anidiosyncratic character who, unlike so many modern athletes, insisted that his responsibilities extended beyond the playing field. In his final years, his motto was that if you have a chance to help others and fail to do so, you are wasting your time on this earth. Here, in the final chapters, after capturing Clemente's life and times, Maraniss retraces his final days, from the earthquake to the accident, using newly uncovered documents to reveal the corruption and negligence that led the unwitting hero on a mission of mercy toward his untimely death as an uninspected, overloaded plane plunged into the sea.
LC Classification Number
GV865.C45M355 2006
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