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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Indiana-Born Major League Baseball Players: A Biographical Dictionary, 1871-2014

Indiana-Born Major League Baseball Players: A Biographical Dictionary, 1871-2014

Cava, Pete

Paperback

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ISBN10: 078649901X
ISBN13: 9780786499014
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Oct 6 2015
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.90
Language: English

Indiana boasts a rich baseball tradition, with 10 native sons enshrined in Cooperstown. This biographical dictionary provides a close look at the lives of all 364 Hoosier big leaguers, who include New York City's first baseball superstar; the first rookie pitcher to win three games in a World Series; the man who caught most of Cy Young's record 511 career wins; one of the game's first star relievers; the player who held the record for consecutive games played before Lou Gehrig; an obscure infielder mentioned in Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic strip; baseball's only one-legged pitcher; Indiana's first Mr. Basketball, who became one of baseball's greatest pinch-hitters; the first African American to play for the Cincinnati Reds; the only pitcher to throw a perfect game in the World Series; the skipper of the 1969 Miracle Mets; the pitcher for whom a ground-breaking surgical procedure is named; and the only two men to have played in both the World Series and the Final Four of the NCAA Basketball Tournament.

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