Throwbacks
Subtitle: Old-School Baseball Players in Today's Game
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.
Published: May 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781574884531
Subjects: Baseball; Sports; Baseball players; Sports & Recreation; Biography / Autobiography; Baseball - Essays & Writings; Baseball - Specific Teams; Sports - Baseball; Sports & Recreation / Baseball / History; Baseball - General; Biography
First sentence: Just what and who is a baseball throwback?
Description: "Despite its many troubles, baseball still maintains a strong allure. Our love affair with the national pastime continues today thanks in no small part to players who hold fast to old-school values. With Throwbacks: old-school baseball players in today's game, we celebrate them ... In detailing some of the throwbacks in today's game--stars such as Kerry Wood, Greg Maddux, and Jim Thome and role players such as Herbert Perry and Doug Glanville--author George Castle relied on his past coverage of these players, more than a decade's worth with some of them"--Jacket.